Strengthening and Revitilazing the Governance of the STIE Mandala Employee Cooperative: A Participatory Action Research Approach
Keywords:
Cooperative, Governance, Transparency, Accountability, Community ServiceAbstract
Purposes: This community service program aims to strengthen the governance of the STIE Mandala Employee Cooperative through the revitalization of institutional documents (Statutes and bylaws, organizational structure, and standard operation procedure) and the implementation of a digital-based financial recording system to improve transparency and accountability.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Participatory Action Research (PAR) with five main stages was conducted—socialization, training, technology implementation, mentoring and evaluation, and sustainability planning. Training focused on cooperative management for doing simple accounting, while technology implementation was carried out through the use of automated software templates for financial recording and reporting.
Findings: The activities indicates that there was increased transparency, accountability, and member trust in the cooperative administrators after the intitative was taken. Furthermore, the program also align with the fulfillment of SDGs 8 and 16 regarding decent work and economic growth and strong institutions. To ensure the sustainability of the program, an internal coordinator is appointed after the assistance period.
Originality/Value: This program employs PAR methodology in order to fulfill the SDGs initiative within context of employee cooperative which rarely been noticed by scholars, which can be replicated within similar context.
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