The handbook of social welfare management
By: edited by Rino J. Patti
Contributors: Patti, Rino J
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
Subjects: Social work administration; Social service -- Management; Public welfare -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: The landscape of social welfare management / Rino J. Patti; title: Social work and social welfare administration : a historical perspective / David M. Austin; title: The environmental context of social welfare administration / Lawrence L. Martin; title: Administrative ethics / Frederic G. Reamer; title: Social welfare administration and organizational theory / Yeheskel Hasenfeld; title: Structural and fiscal characteristics of social service agencies / Margaret Gibelman; title: Agency-environment relations : understanding task environments / Hillel Schmid; title: Organizational structure and performance / David F. Gillespie; title: Motivating work performance in social services / Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, Daniel Bogin; title: Organizational climate and culture / Charles Glisson; title: The individual in the organization : the impact of human service workers' attributes on job response / Gary F. Koeske, Randi Koeske; title: What managers do and why they do it / David Menefee; title: Managing for service outcomes : the critical role of information / John Poertner; title: Interorganizational collaboration in the task environment / Catherine Foster Alter; title: The manager as leader / David Bargal; title: Managing information for decision making / Dick Schoech; title: Managing the planning process / Michael J. Austin, Jeffrey R. Solomon; title: Manager as resource developer / Philip McCallion; title: Financial management / Mark Ezell; title: Managing personnel / Peter J. Pecora, Michael Wagner; title: Managing for diversity and empowerment in social services / Alfreda P. Iglehart; title: Initiating and implementing change / Felice Davidson Perlmutter; title: Points of tension : mental health administration in a managed care environment / Barbara J. Friesen; title: Services for families and children : the changing context and new challenges / Marie Weil; title: Health care and social work : dilemmas and opportunities / Andrew Weissman, Gary Rosenberg; title: Aging / Kathleen H. Wilber