Managing the Challenges in Human Service Organizations

Managing the Challenges in Human Service Organizations
Author: Michael J. Austin
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 141294127X

The novel approach of this casebook encourages the student to determine how they would act and work towards a resolution of real-world dilemmas.

Organizational Change in the Human Services

Organizational Change in the Human Services
Author: Rebecca Ann Proehl
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761922506

Organizations today { whether public or private { exist in environment s where the pace of change is dizzying. Human service organizations fa ce both external and internal challenges: The public demands better se rvices at more reasonable costs. Clientele is more diverse, more strat ified, and more vocal than ever. The organizations themselves must kee p up with rapid changes in technological innovation and labor-manageme nt relationships. Organizational Change: The Human Services Challenge looks at the context of organizational change, describes how individua ls and systems change, and pinpoints keys to successful change. Author Rebecca Proehl then presents a proven model of organizational change, built on lessons learned from both the public and private sectors, bu t tailored for human service organizations. Proehl also discusses in d epth labor union-management issues, the political strategies leaders m ust use to implement change, and how to build collaborative relationsh ips in human services.

Human Services as Complex Organizations

Human Services as Complex Organizations
Author: Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1217
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412956935

This new edition looks at the many recent changes in the arena of Human Sevices Organizations.

Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations

Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations
Author: Ralph Brody
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781412904209

Now in its Third Edition, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable advice for achieving managerial success. Ralph Brody dissects and diagnoses common workplace dilemmas, arming practicing managers with the skills to implement positive changes in their organizations. While retaining much of the valuable information from the previous editions, the Third Edition adds up-to-date information and ideas to chapters on developing leadership, planning strategically, solving organizational problems, addressing challenging employee situations, monitoring financial statements, improving internal and external communications, and obtaining funding from private foundations. Easy to read, the book contains hundreds of real-life examples and specific guidance in developing skills necessary to manage large and small organizations.

Excellence in Human Service Organization Management

Excellence in Human Service Organization Management
Author: Peter M. Kettner
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Human services
ISBN: 9780205088157

An integrated model for management and administrative practice. Excellence in Human Service Organization Management, 2/e provides guidelines to insure internal consistency within Human Service Organizations. Integrated in management theory, the model presented in the text is adapted to human service organizations generally and social work issues specifically. The text first identifies problems in organizational functioning as well as proposes what managers need to do to put their organizations back on track toward excellence. Then it guides managers through a plan to bring employees on board and continuously nurture them so they identify their success with that of the organization. Standards for Excellence Series -- Designed to help students advance their knowledge, values, and skills, the Standards for Excellence Series assists students in associated CSHSE's National Standards to all levels of human service practice. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Identify problems in organizational functioning. Recognize what managers need to do to get organizations on the track for excellence. Understand what employees need to do to help the overall well-being of an organization.

Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations

Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations
Author: Ralph Brody
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483314979

Now in its Fourth Edition, Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable creative ideas for achieving managerial success. Authors Ralph Brody and Murali Nair dissect and diagnose common workplace dilemmas, offering current and future managers the skills to implement positive changes in organizations large and small. Easy-to-read, this book connects a conceptual framework and essential managerial practices with hundreds of real-life examples and case studies of applied managerial skills in organizational settings.

Changing Human Service Organizations

Changing Human Service Organizations
Author: George Brager
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1978
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Monograph on planned Innovation and organization development in social services - focuses on change initiated by lower and middle management levels of the organizational hierarchy, covers political aspects, psychological aspects, initial assessment of the need for change, the change process, implementation and institutionalization, etc., and presents management theory and practical examples. References.

Human Service Organizations

Human Service Organizations
Author: Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1983
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Includes coverage of a wide range of human service organizations Uses a systematic & coherent model of organizational analysis

Developing Human Service Leaders

Developing Human Service Leaders
Author: Deborah Harley-McClaskey
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2015-12-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483393127

Developing Human Service Leaders is an empowering text for human services students that covers the skills and behaviors essential for leaders to manage themselves, their teams, and the organization. Using a unique coaching voice, author Deborah Harley-McClaskey follows a Reflection–Diagnosis–Prescription approach for leadership development with exercises built into the dialogue. The final chapter, Prognosis, offers a workbook-style exercise to help students make a personal change.

The Handbook of Human Services Management

The Handbook of Human Services Management
Author: Rino J. Patti
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412952913

Focusing on an effectiveness-driven approach to management in the human services, Rino J. Patti's The Handbook of Human Services Management, Second Edition explores the latest information on practice innovations, theoretical perspectives, and empirical research to provide an essential perspective on what managers do to create and sustain organizations that deliver high quality, effective services to consumers. Offering the most comprehensive coverage of human services management available today, this second edition includes 24 chapters authored by distinguished practitioners and scholars in human services management: 10 that are entirely new and 14 that have been extensively revised. The Handbook is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.