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Organization Practice Mary Katherine O'Connor

Organization Practice By Mary Katherine O'Connor

Organization Practice by Mary Katherine O'Connor


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Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations.

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Organization Practice: A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations by Mary Katherine O'Connor

Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical model for understanding cultural identities within organizations. Also, it is significantly revised to include numerous real-world cases, critical thinking questions, empirical support, and engaging exercises. Social workers, as well as public health and nonprofit administrators will benefit from the insights in this book.

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The most impressive aspect of this book is that the authors chose to present the complexity of social work organization practice over a more simplistic description. This book provides a framework useful for thinking about how to be a social worker at the organization level, moving towards the incorporation of difference and diversity as an avenue towards social justice both within the organization and in the organization's relationships with the greater community. Developing the self-awareness and critical thinking necessary to navigate such paradoxical realities is the focus of this extraordinary book. ( Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work Newsletter , June 9, 2009)

About Mary Katherine O'Connor

Mary Katherine O'Connor, PHD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches in the PhD and MSW programs. F. Ellen Netting, PHD, is the Samuel S. Wurtzel Endowed Chair and Professor of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches in the PhD, MSW, and BSW programs.

Table of Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xv ORIENTATION AND OVERVIEW 1 Human Service Practice in a Diverse Organizational Landscape 3 2 Frameworks for the Organization Practitioner 41 P ART I STRUCTURE AND CONTROL 3 Traditional Organizations 91 4 Practice in Traditional Organizations 119 P ART II CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING FOR CHANGE 5 Social Change Organizations 153 6 Practice in Social Change Organizations 179 P ART III CONNECTION AND COLLABORATION 7 Serendipitous Organizations 213 8 Practice in Serendipitous Organizations 239 P ART IV INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT 9 Entrepreneurial Organizations 273 10 Practice in Entrepreneurial Organizations 299 CONCLUSION 11 Multiparadigmatic Practice 327 Appendix A: Organization Assessment 365 Glossary 375 References 385 Author Index 401 Subject Index 409

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CIN0470252855G
9780470252857
0470252855
Organization Practice: A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations by Mary Katherine O'Connor
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
20090310
464
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