| Description |
xiii, 328 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ronald Lippit -- Introduction : An overview of organizational change -- Part I. The organizational context of service delivery -- A social system view of strain / Herman Resnick -- Social work practice : Organizational environment / Rino J. Patti -- Organizational characteristics of agencies and the distribution of services to applicants / James R. Greenly andStuart A. Kirk -- Social workers versus bureaucracy / Wilbur A. Finch, Jr. -- The professional social worker in a bureaucracy / Harry Wasserman -- The selection of clients by social welfare agencies : The case of the blind / Robert A. Scott -- Part II. Analyzing an organization's receptivity to change -- Organizational resistance and change : The view from below / Rino J. Patti -- Organizational resistance to planning goals / Robert Morris and Robert H. Binstock -- Some notes on the dynamics of resistance to change : The defender role / Donald Klein -- Program change and organizational properties / Jerald Hage and Michael Aiken -- Part III. Models for action in organizational change -- Effecting internal change in human service organizations / Herman Resnick -- Tasks in changing the organization from within / Herman Resnick -- Changing the agency from within / Rhino J. Patti and Herman Resnick -- Promoting an innovation / Jack Rothman -- Organizational tinkering / Edward J. Pawlak -- Planning and power in hospital social service / Brian Segal -- Internal advocacy and human service practitioners : An exploratory study / Rino J. Patti -- Postscript : A workshop on organizational change for supervisors and practitioners / Herman Resnick. |
| Subject |
Social work administration.
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| Added Author |
Resnick, Herman, 1930-
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Patti, Rino J.
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| ISBN |
0877221731 |
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0877222002 (paperback) |
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