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Efficiency considerations in the social welfare agency.

• Heffeman, J

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the normative concepts of efficiency and effectiveness and a description of one quantitative method of measurement, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Efficiency considerations have always been prominent in the minds of administrators concerned with achieving the most they can from available sources. The DEA removes the problem of dollar evaluation and focuses on the critical problem of observation and measurement of comparative performances. (This issue of Administration in Social Work contains 11 articles on efficiency and the social services.)

Journal

Administration in Social Work

(1991)
vol15 no1-2 pages119-31

Categories

1. Evaluation and Information Management  
2. Accountability and Efficiency  

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