New Strategic Perspectives on Social Policy (Pergamon Policy Studies on Social Policy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Tropman, John E.

Lind, Roger M.

Social Sciences

Pergamon Pr

At a time of rapid social, economic, and organizational change, community benefit organizations (CBO) have a nearly unprecedented need for managers and leaders who are not just ethical and mission-centric, but also competent-managers and leaders who have the whole picture of the CBO landscape and the skills to efficiently and effectively guide it in its mission, increase value, and achieve lasting impact. Conversational and well-paced, Supervision, Management, and Leadership draws on classic, time-tested perspectives while fully integrating emerging priorities, practices, and tools of the digital revolution. This book provides readers with a roadmap for moving up in an organization and a handbook for how to develop as a competent manager and leader.

Supervision, Management, and Leadership: An Introduction to Building Community Benefit Organizations

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

An introductory text on social work methods and policies and on social services, from an ecological perspective. Part I presents an overview of the systems within which social work and services evolved. Part II deals with ways that social workers create change and how this relates to ecological ideas. Part III discusses the ecology of specific settings for social work and social welfare activity. Part IV highlights the use of research and the nature of social work as a profession. Includes chapter Internet exercises. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Social Work in Contemporary Society (2nd Edition)

Garvin, Charles D.

Allyn&Bacon

Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves. The response in society is hatred of the poor, he contends, and among the poor themselves, self-hatred.
Two groups of poor are analyzed. The status poor―those at the bottom of America's money, deference, power, education, or occupation (and combinations of those). The status poor embody the truth that, in the land of opportunity, not all succeed. The elderly are the life cycle poor. They are deficient of future, and in the land of opportunity, to have one's own life trajectory circumscribe hope is a condition that must be denied. Poorhate is a classic example of blame the victim. Tropman explores the process of poorhate through data from the 1960s and 1970s, and he uses the past to illuminate the probelms of the present, and, hopefully, to assist in crafting a better future. A provocative work for students and scholars of social welfare policy and policymakers themselves.

Does America Hate the Poor?: The Other American Dilemma, Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s (Greenwood Press Literature in)

Praeger

Effective Meetings: Improving Group Decision Making (SAGE Human Services Guides)

The purpose of this book is to improve the decision-making process in social work groups. Illustrating the volume with various meeting models - including advisory groups, intergroup and intercultural meetings - John E Tropman examines a number of critical issues facing social workers including family and community violence, health care and homelessness. New to this Second Edition is a discussion of the relationship between meetings and missions, goals, and external and internal forces.

Sage Publications, Inc.

The purpose of this book is to improve the decision-making process in social work groups. Illustrating the volume with various meeting models - including advisory groups, intergroup and intercultural meetings - John E Tropman examines a number of critical issues facing social workers including family and community violence, health care and homelessness. New to this Second Edition is a discussion of the relationship between meetings and missions, goals, and external and internal forces.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities. Through the Meeting Masters Research Project at the University of Michigan, author John E. Tropman observed and interviewed the nation's most successful meeting experts to find out how to make meetings both stimulating and productive. Based on his findings, Tropman formulated seven principles and fourteen commandments for implementing dynamic meetings.

Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions

Based on years of scholarly research, this book offers a fresh perspective of the Protestant ethic by contrasting it with the newly identified Catholic charity ethic. There are several key features that distinguish the Catholic ethic from its Protestant counterpart, including how each ethic values money and work, family and community, and the individual. The Protestant ethic is rooted in the values of work, wealth, and achievement while the Catholic ethic is firmly based on long-standing traditions and beliefs of sharing. When the two are compared, the Catholic ethic has a stronger value base for providing assistance to others, especially the poor and the disadvantaged. John Tropman presents an insightful analysis of the deeply ingrained attitudes Americans have about money and work, and their view of people who have neither. 
This is a valuable work for sociologists, political scientists, social activists, religion scholars and students, and fundraisers of charitable organizations.

The Catholic Ethic in American Society: An Exploration of Values (JOSSEY BASS NONPROFIT & PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SERIES)

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Money isn't everything to today's employees. This book shows companies how to combine traditional compensation with the educational, emotional, and psychological benefits that will attract the best and brightest. It identifies the ten elements - including learning, advancement, emotional rewards, and quality of life - that job seekers rank highest among desired benefits. Then it shows employers how to combine them with monetary benefits to create effective, employee-driven compensation packages.

The Compensation Solution: How to Develop an Employee-Driven Rewards System

Jossey-Bass

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New Strategic Perspectives on Social Policy (Pergamon Policy Studies on Social Policy)

New Strategic Perspectives on Social Policy (Pergamon Policy Studies on Social Policy)

Supervision, Management, and Leadership: An Introduction to Building Community Benefit Organizations

Social Work in Contemporary Society (2nd Edition)

Does America Hate the Poor?: The Other American Dilemma, Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s (Greenwood Press Literature in)

Effective Meetings: Improving Group Decision Making (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Effective Meetings: Improving Group Decision Making (SAGE Human Services Guides)

Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions

The Catholic Ethic in American Society: An Exploration of Values (JOSSEY BASS NONPROFIT & PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SERIES)

The Compensation Solution: How to Develop an Employee-Driven Rewards System