Policy and Leadership in religious organizations

Purpose of the course

The Purpose of this lesson, is to help the students develop both divergent and convergent thinking in as far as policy formulation, communication, negotiation and implementation strategy are concerned. Further, this course aims at looking at politics, governance and leadership, and how such may affect policy in religious organizations.

Course Objectives

By the end of this lecture, the students should be able to :

Demonstrate the policy formulation ability in a religious organization

Demonstrate communication and negotiation techniques that could make the formulated policy be discussed and be accepted in a religious organization 

Demonstrate how strategies and tactics may be employed in the policy implementation endeavours

Show how politics and public policies can can affect polices withi religious organizations

Assess the extent to which bad governance has affected religious organizations in Kenya.

Define the aspect of leadership in religious organizations and the levels to which this is effective within religious organizations in Kenya.