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Social work administration and modern management technology
Abstract
In the social work profession, the entrepreneurial model of meeting human needs results in a bias toward democratic decision making and underplays the importance of the real constraints, such as finite budgets and hostile legislatures, with which managers must deal. Little in professional training prepares social workers for their new and almost inevitable roles as supervisors and middle managers. Social work's relationship to social services has become minor and tangential during the past 20 years. This declining presence could have an ill effect on the future of a profession that may already be losing control of its own workplace. The use of management technology, especially the personal computer, not only contributes to better administration but can be used to effect both direct and indirect savings in this period of budget retrenchment. Emphasized is the need to devise and teach standards that social agencies can use to introduce the new technology to supervisors and managers.
Journal
(1986)
vol10
no3
pages15-24
Categories
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Financial Management
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Organizational Decision Making
