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MNA Position Statement
POLICY ON STAFF
ROLES, FUNCTIONS, AND RELATIONSHIPS TO STRUCTURAL UNITS
Staff and elected
and appointed members are essential to accomplishing the goals of the MNA and
each must understand and respect the roles and responsibilities of the other.
The Executive Director
assigns staff to work with each of the MNA structural units that collectively
function to accomplish the goals of the Association. The staff plays a
significant role in each of these groups. Staff: works with the
chairperson to plan the agenda; participates in the identification of issues,
problems, and concerns; participates in setting goals, in the determination
of priorities, and in the development and evaluation of programs; presents information
for decision making; drafts papers, reports, and prepares communications interpreting
the conclusions and decisions of the members.
Staff implements
the procedures designed to insure the accountability of each structural unit
to the MNA Board of Directors and to the Voting Body by:
- Translating
program plans to requests for budget allocations;
- Assisting with
the preparation and presentation of reports to the Board and to the Voting
Body;
- Being alert
to the need for recommendations and/or motions to establish new Association
policies and positions.
The staff, as continuing
full-time participants in the work of the structural units must carry significant
responsibility for alerting the groups with whom they work, and their colleagues
on the staff, to emerging issues, concerns, conflicts, and need for collaboration
between and among the major structural units of the Association. Staff must
also be alert to, and arrange for, ways to accommodate legitimate actions of one
group which by their nature and timing may have a less than desirable effect upon
another aspect of the work of the Association.
Staff are expected
to have knowledge and expertise in the areas to which they are assigned; and
to have adequate knowledge of the total program of the Association to put their
work in perspective. Staff are accountable to the Executive Director and
the scope of their responsibilities extends beyond that which they carry in
their work with the structural units. Each member of the staff is responsible
for utilizing the administrative arrangements available to him/her for:
- Informing colleagues
of what they need to know;
- Alert colleagues
to significant development and trends that come to his/her attention;
- Making the
necessary arrangements when collaboration of one or more structural units
is indicated.
Staff are expected
to advise and assist in arranging for appropriate division of labor among the
structural units so that each may be productive in the area of their defined responsibilities.
Staff act as facilitators to further the structural unit’s work during and between
meetings.
Approved:
BOD
7/17/81
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