This text gives social work students a background in organizational theory and shows how to apply different practice approaches when managing in multicultural organizational settings. The text is theoretically driven and focuses on historical and post-modern theories of organization and organizational behavior, with an emphasis on the importance of self-awareness and critical thinking in organizational practice. Several frameworks are presented for organizational practice, and examples are given from planning and advocacy organizations in public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. The authors are affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Organization Practice: A Social Worker's Guide to Understanding Human Services

Netting, F. Ellen

O'Connor, Mary Katherine

Business & Money

Allyn&Bacon

"As a practitioner in the field for over thirty years, I have been exposed to endless 'planning' sessions that are prescriptive to the point of being oppressive. Thistext 'gives permission' to the practitioner to allow for emergence, uncertainty, and ambiguity in the planning process. Comparative Approaches to Program Planning provides a guide for the manager, administrator, executive director, strategic planner, and CEO to embrace multiple planning strategies and the understanding of each. This is extremely worthwhile in a dynamic environment and an ever- changing landscape and worldview." ―Paul D. McWhinney, ACSW, Director of Social Services City of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia "This is the book I've been waiting for. It provides not only a linear approach to program design, but gives language to the tacit knowledge many planners have of the circular nature of their work. Both linear and circular thinking are important to planning processes and now we have a resource for teaching." ―Jon E. Singletary, PhD, MSW, MDiv, Baylor University, School of Social Work The first text on program planning to guide readers in selecting program planning approaches appropriate to setting, culture, and context Valuable for students and practitioners in the social work, public administration, nonprofit management, and community psychology fields, Comparative Approaches to Program Planning provides practical and creative ways to effectively conduct program planning within human service organizations. Written by leaders in the social work education community, this innovative book explores program planning as a multi-layered and complex process. It examines both a traditional linear problem-solving model as well as an alternative emergent approach to program planning, helping professionals to successfully develop and enact effective and culturally competent planning in organizations and communities.

Comparative Approaches to Program Planning

Politics & Social Sciences

Fauri, David P.

Social Sciences

wiley

Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical model for understanding cultural identities within organizations. Also, it is significantly revised to include numerous real-world cases, critical thinking questions, empirical support, and engaging exercises. Social workers, as well as public health and nonprofit administrators will benefit from the insights in this book.

Organization Practice: A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations

From formulation to implementation, an approach to the analysis of social policy through the lens of research Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related to identifying and understanding the intricacies and potential impact of social policymaking and enactment on their organization as well as their individual responsibilities, goals, and objectives. Authors Mary Katherine O'Connor and F. Ellen Netting thoroughly examine various approaches to the analysis of social policies and how these approaches provide the knowledge, multiple perspectives, and other resources to understand and grasp the nuances of social policy in all its complexity. Comprehensive and based on research, Analyzing Social Policy explores: <ul>
<li> An overview of the practice of social policy analysis </li> <li> The role of research in guiding policy analysis </li> <li> The idea of policy analyses as research </li> <li> Themes, assumptions, and major theories that undergird rational models of policy analysis </li> <li> Nonrational themes, assumptions, and major theories informing nontraditional interpretive and critical approaches to policy analysis </li> <li> Strategies for applying selected models and approaches when engaging in policy analysis as research </li> </ul>
Providing practitioners and students with a set of tools that can be used to enhance an understanding of what constitutes policy as well as acceptable standards for critical analysis of policy, this resource enables policy advocates―regardless of their level―to be political, strategic, and critical in their work.

Analyzing Social Policy: Multiple Perspectives for Critically Understanding and Evaluating Policy

Politics & Government

SOCIAL WORK MACRO PRACTICE WORKBOOK provides an experiential approach to macro practice concerns, with a special eye to critical thinking, policy-practice, community practice, organization practice, and leadership and professional development. Activities, activity charts, exercises, critical thinking skill-builders, and a running case study make this experience authentic and brings the content to life.

Social Work Macro Practice Workbook

Cengage Learning'

Social Work Constructivist Research (Social Psychology Reference Series)

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

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