Leadership and Organization for Community Prevention and Intervention in Venezuela
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: May 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780789012487
Subjects: Kinship; Sociology; History; History: World; Venezuela; Sociology - General; Community organization; Social History; Community development; Community leadership
First sentence: Theories of leadership speak about certain types of leaders: authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire; there are trait, situational and contingency explanations for leadership, but psychosocial community work provides experiences that need to be examined from the community's own perspective.
Description: "This book will show you how (and why) participatory communities come into being and what they can accomplish, regardless of the current political climate. It also examines leadership - and the skills community leaders need to develop to be most effective. You'll find ethnographic and psychosocial perspectives on the relationship between families and community organizations, leadership interventions designed to facilitate more effective decision-making, and more - all from organizations making a very real difference in a country that has had a strong community work tradition since the 1960s."--Jacket.