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Training social administrators for leadership in the coming decades
Abstract
A study attempts to elucidate the nature of human services leadership by examining the relationship between business skills as tools for efficient management and leadership as a set of skills for effective administration. Social administrators are leaders in their organizations. Needed skills and knowledge must be either innate, part of one's training, or learned on the job. For effective management, social administrators would do well to borrow from lessons offered by the MBA. The study also identifies some of the analytic and technical tools that will be required of social workers as leaders in the coming years. The implications of leadership training for curriculum development in graduate schools of social work are addressed. Specific application of cost accounting, marketing, and operations management skills are presented as vehicles for maximizing leadership roles in social administration. Policy dilemmas likely to surface, and the use of business tools to address them, are presented. (Journal abstract, edited.)
Journal
(1988)
vol12
no3
pages1-11
Categories
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Education and Training
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Staff Development and Training
