ORGANISATION TO MOVEMENT

A week ago I attended a motivational session where Moses Mukisa gave insight on how to sustain an organisation for over 500 years. He shared about the difference between an organisation and a movement with the church as his major example of a movement given the fact that it has been in existence for more than 2000 years. On this note I will share some tips on how we can convert our human resource into a movement using the same tactics Christ used to grow and develop the church.

The Business Dictionary defines an organisation as a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need and pursue collective goals where as Merriam Webster defines a movement as a group of diffusely organised people or organisations striving towards a common goal relating to human society. One would therefore wonder how they can get their human resource from just working towards collective goals to further getting diffused into each other working towards a shared goal. With an existent thin line between the two, this is how Christ did it;

Jesus while on earth called together twelve disciples that helped him spread the gospel in some parts of the Jewish and gentile lands while he taught and prepared them on how they would continue to spread the gospel after his departure. Mathew 16; 18 “…Peter, and on this rock I will build my church…” Managers and employers ought not only to use the assistance rendered by the human resource to enable them reach their targets but also develop task force that can continue to move the organisation forward even in their abs ensure.

 In Mathew 6; 9-13 he teaches the disciples how to pray the right way. Many times our human resource goes astray which may at times necessitate training. The manager should therefore teach the human resources “how to pray” by taking them through refresher courses or even pre-induction training in order for them to sustain the organisation. The Lord’s Prayer also enabled the disciples understand the basics of their faith which implies a need for the human resource to understand and own the vision of the organization.

In John 14; 16 Christ promises to send the disciples a helper to help them spread the gospel. Even after delegation of work, managers ought to play a mentorship, patron ship and supportive role with the human resources in order for them to ably sustain the organisation.

The church as a movement continues to grow and spread all over the world and this is greatly attributed to the foundation on which it was built. Therefore organisations that are rooted with human resources having a sense of “a movement” stand higher chances of crossing over to different generations.