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- ISBN 9780789031785
- Weight: 1250g
- Dimensions: 156 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Textbook of Social Administration equips social programs managers with the skills they need to produce mutually desired outcomes for their consumers/clients and for their staff. This comprehensive resource is a how-to guide to developing the management abilities needed to maintain an effective client-centered approach by using a social programs framework that uses information, personnel, and additional resources to support and direct the interaction between social workers and their clients.
How does a social administrator structure an organization so that consumers achieve desired benefits and the work still gets done in an efficient manner? This hands-on, practical guide shows how, demonstrating both the basic principles of consumer/client-centered management through a micro-skills approach and effective personnel management that produces satisfied workers—and consumers. Textbook of Social Administration demystifies human services management with a simple but powerful approach that is both passionate and informed.
Textbook of Social Administration includes:
- frameworks for organizing social administration skills
- strategies for initiating change through persuasion
- principles of consumer-centered management
- the elements of the social program analytic framework
- framework requirements for goals, objectives, and expectations
- helping behaviors
- examples of program elements that enhance consumer benefits
- applying the wrap-around approach to school-based mental health services
- managing information
- selecting and measuring performance indicators
- personnel management
- fiscal management
- the inverted hierarchy
- and much more
Textbook of Social Administration is essential as a classroom resource for social work students interested in administration and as a professional resource for administrators in social service agencies.
