SEWA (A): Ela Bhatt
商品編號：9B14C018
出版日期：2014/09/03
再版日期：2014/09/03
商品來源：Ivey
商品主題：Entrepreneurship; International Business; Organizational Behaviour/Leadership
商品類型：Case (Field)
涵蓋議題：Leadership;character;empowerment;social movements;India
難易度：4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度：17 頁
地域：India
產業：Social Advocacy Organizations;
事件年度：2013
In February 2014, a McKinsey Global Institute report proposed tracking an empowerment line that could enable India’s citizens to get out of poverty by providing the resources they needed to build better lives. This prompted Ela Bhatt, founder of the India-based Self-Employed Women’s Association, to take stock of her initiative to empower women working in India's informal sector. Since 1972, her organization has been widely acclaimed as a global first mover and active champion of grassroots development. Quickly approaching two million members in India and six neighbouring countries, and inspiring similar efforts in South Africa, Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso, it exemplifies a unique form of positively deviant organizing by speaking to the centrality of human beings at work. Given resources, support and encouragement, its many members have used their own human agency even in the direst of circumstances to better their lives in ways most meaningful to them, for instance, by creating childcare, health care, banking, farming and education cooperatives. However, as she reaches retirement and contemplates the future, Bhatt wonders if the new generation of Indian leaders will take up the Gandhian socially minded path or follow the commercial careers opening up in the country’s multinational sector. Also see B case 9B14C019.
教學手冊：8B14C018
補充材料：9B14C019