The Management of Human Services /

The Management of Human Services / / ed. by Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Rosemary C. Sarri.

Examines the social welfare institutions in the United States during the first three-quarters of the 20th century when states were facing a crisis in terms of their societal legitimation, allocation of resources, public expectations, and management.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Aldrich, Howard,
Alexander, Leslie B.,
Delbecq, André L.,
Gurin, Arnold,
Hasenfeld, Yeheskel,
Janowitz, Morris,
Lescohier, Ilana Hirsch,
Litwak, Eugene,
Morris, Robert,
Patti, Rino,
Perlmutter, Felice Davidson,
Perrow, Charles,
Rossi, Peter H.,
Suttles, Gerald D.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hasenfeld, Yeheskel,
Sarri, Rosemary C.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1978]
©1978
Year of Publication:1978
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 The Management of Human Services - A Challenging Opportunity
  • I. The Macro Level
  • 2 Service Integration: Real Versus Illusory Solutions to Welfare Dilemmas
  • 3 Centralization Versus Decentralization in the Design of Human Service Delivery Systems: A Response to Gouldner’s Lament
  • 4 The Social Ecology of Citizenship
  • 5 Demystifying Organizations
  • II. The Micro Level
  • 6 Organizational Constructs and Mega Bureaucracy
  • 7 The Empirical Limits of Social Work Professionalization
  • 8 Client-Organization Relations: A Systems Perspective
  • 9 Exposing the Coercive Consensus: Racism and Sexism in Social Work
  • III. Prescriptive Strategies
  • 10 Some Issues in the Evaluation of Human Services Delivery
  • 11 Toward a Paradigm of Middle-Management Practice in Social Welfare Programs
  • 12 Conceptual and Technical Issues in the Management of Human Services
  • 13 The Social Political Process of Introducing Innovation in Human Services
  • 14 Conclusions
  • Appendix - List of Participants
  • Index

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