Organization Practice
A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations
2nd Edition
Published on 3. February 2009
464 pages
978-0-470-49553-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"The most impressive aspect of this book is that the authors chose to present the complexity of social work organization practice over a more simplistic description. This book provides a framework useful for thinking about how to be a social worker at the organization level, moving towards the incorporation of difference and diversity as an avenue towards social justice both within the organization and in the organization's relationships with the greater community. Developing the self-awareness and critical thinking necessary to navigate such paradoxical realities is the focus of this extraordinary book." (Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work Newsletter, June 9, 2009)More details
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Mary Katherine O'Connor | F. Ellen Netting
Organization Practice
A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations
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03/2009
2nd Edition
Wiley
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Mary Katherine O'Connor, PHD, is a Professor in the Schoolof Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, where sheteaches in the PhD and MSW programs.
F. Ellen Netting, PHD, is the Samuel S. Wurtzel EndowedChair and Professor of Social Work at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, where she teaches in the PhD, MSW, and BSWprograms.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
ORIENTATION AND OVERVIEW
1 Human Service Practice in a Diverse Organizational Landscape3
2 Frameworks for the Organization Practitioner 41
PART I STRUCTURE AND CONTROL
3 Traditional Organizations 91
4 Practice in Traditional Organizations 119
PART II CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING FORCHANGE
5 Social Change Organizations 153
6 Practice in Social Change Organizations 179
PART III CONNECTION AND COLLABORATION
7 Serendipitous Organizations 213
8 Practice in Serendipitous Organizations 239
PART IV INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT
9 Entrepreneurial Organizations 273
10 Practice in Entrepreneurial Organizations 299
CONCLUSION
11 Multiparadigmatic Practice 327
Appendix A: Organization Assessment 365
Glossary 375
References 385
Author Index 401
Subject Index 409
