Research on the Canadian Red Cross

 

Abstract

            The Canadian Red Cross organization mainly deals with activities like violence and abuse prevention, assistance in disaster response, offering swimming and water safety guidance and first aid. It is recommendable for the organization to formulate a decision-making risk approach which to will strengthen the trust of the people towards regardless of any misfortunes. The organization should take various steps to facilitate development and prevent cases like bullying. It should also put in to place some strategies that will facilitate prevention of misfortunes within the organization. There are several challenges faced by the organization one of them being the issue of government funding and the other one is criticism from the people.

Introduction

            Canadian Red Cross is the most active organization among other organizations in Canada. The organization has greatly amplified and developed intense association with local communities, the Canadian government and other world humanitarian organizations. The purpose of the program is taking part in disaster response assistance, prevention of violence and abuse, guidelines in swimming and water safety, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid course and offer services on maternal health in the nations with poor accessibility of healthcare. The organization has made people to develop a sense of distrust due to its some activities associated with it and has also been facing several challenges during its service delivery. It is important for the program to formulate some strategies that will enable it overcome the challenges and enhance development.

Opinion Concerning Lack of Trust by the People towards the Organization

            There is lack of trust by the people concerning the organization due to a case of contaminated blood donation within the organization. It is recommendable for the Canadian Red Cross to adopt a risk decision-making approach in order to revive the trust of the on people (Skinner et al, 2016). This would protect the organization from facing criticism arising from failure or misfortunes that might happen in the course of the service delivery and strengthen trust amongst the people. Lack of trust was caused by a situation when there was donation of contaminated blood. This incidence led to deaths of many patients which made people lose trust with the organization. This approach would help in prevention of re-occurrence of such cases and strengthen the trust of the people.

Strategic Recommendations for the Development of the Canadian Red Cross

            Unity in leadership

            Total participation of the organizational leadership is one of the strategies that can enable the organization to survive and be strong in future. The leaders ought to take part in social networks within the organization and the societies they serve (Waldman, Yumagulova, Mackwani, Benson & Stone, 2018). The leaders should also improve their trust with their partners for instance, the board members, donors, employees, clients and the society. They also improve support and communication in order to achieve the organizational goals and vision.

            Invention of decision-making approach strategy

             Adoption of decision-making approach is another strategy that might help in prevention of misfortunes within the organization. This will help to prevent occurrence of any kind of criticism (Skinner et al, 2016). Criticism might be caused by failure to do as per the expectations for instance, during certain procedures to the patients particularly invasive procedures like blood donation. The service providers ought to adopt the strategy to avoid finding themselves in certain pitfalls which might affect the public as well as the program itself.

Challenges Facing Canadian Red Cross

            Funding

            Funding is one of the challenges affecting the Canadian Red Cross. The government funding system affects the staffing in the fact that the government is hiring more contract staffs for service delivery (Hart, Greenfield & Johnston, 2005). This has brought about doubts concerning the continuity of getting funds from the government. This is because of the way the government is employing the non-permanent staffs. Failure of the government to commission permanent workers has brought about fears to the members of the Canadian Red Cross concerning the sufficiency of funds in future to enable service delivery.

            Criticism

            The Canadian Red Cross used to donates blood but it has faced a challenge of criticism after donating blood contaminated with HIV/AIDs viruses (Charbonneau & Smith, 2015). This happened unconsciously when the viruses of the disease emerged but people were not aware. The organized was donating blood as usual to the patients but ended up contributing to deaths of many patients. Many people lost trust on it and it became a centre of criticism.

Conclusion

            There is an issue of lack of trust by people concerning the Canadian Red Cross organization due to some case of donation of contaminated blood. This has led to criticism against the organization. It is therefore recommendable that new strategies like formulation of approach of decision-making over risks that might occur during service delivery by the organization. Good leadership participation can highly facilitate to the development of the organization as they will enhance trust among the people by show of their partnership. Funding by government is one of the challenges the organization facing because there has been a tendency of the government engaging contract workers which create fears if there shall be permanent employment. Criticism is also a challenge the association has been facing as a result of some misfortunes that happened as a result of donation of contaminated blood a case that caused deaths of many people. The organization is having distrust from the people as a result of its actions and also facing several challenges. There is the need to formulate some strategies to overcome the challenges and enhance development.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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