Social administration / Roger Lohmann, Nancy Lohmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lohmann, Roger, author.

Lohmann, Nancy, author.

Series:

Foundations of social work knowledge.

Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1183 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By making explicit linkages both to social work practice and to the history of management thought, covering the rapidly expanding field of nonprofit studies, and incorporating management approaches from Henri Fayol's principles to Total Quality Management, this pioneering work grounds the practice of social administration in the profession of social work and agency-based practice better than any text presently available. The book also addresses ways in which the strategic vision of social administrators can be used to build humane and lasting welfare institutions, further social justice, and confront oppression.To accomplish this task, the authors blend several perspectives: social administration as management, as a form of social work practice emphasizing professional and community leadership, as decision making influenced by values and ethics and as institution building. Divided into an introduction, an afterword, and twenty-five topical chapters, Social Administration discusses issues of executive and program leadership as well as such environmental concerns as community, social agency, and a range of special topics, including accountability, ethics, contracting, and working with boards.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

1. Introduction

PART I. The Ecology of Social Administration

2. Social Administration and Community

3. The Social Agency

4. Social Administration and Organization

PART II. Elements of Social Administration

5. Leadership and Decision-Making

6. The Process of Management

7. Management Models

PART III. The Process of Institutionalization

8. Policy, Institutions, and Strategic Action

9. Administrative Planning

10. Implementation

11. Operations

12. Accountability

13. Program Evaluation

PART IV. Communications and Information

14. Administrative Communication

15. Administrative Information Systems

PART V. Empowerment

16. Administrative Authority

17. Power and Influence

18. Marketing, Public Relations, and Advertising

PART VI. Human and Financial Capital

19. Personnel Systems

20. Human Resources

21. Financial Management

22. Financial Inflows

23. Budgeting

PART VII. Topics in Social Administration

24. Social Administration and Purchase of Service Contracts

25. Ethics and Administration

26. Human Diversity and Administrative Justice

27. Governance Issues: Boards and Directorates

Afterword

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

APPENDIX 4

APPENDIX 5

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-595) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231502610

0231502613

OCLC:

818856893