Social Administration / / Nancy Lohmann, Roger Lohmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lohmann, Roger,; Lohmann, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)

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.

Table of 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