Human Services as Complex Organizations - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1412956943 ISBN 13 : 9781412956949

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

Synopsis

"Hasenfeld has done it again. An excellent collection of essays on many of the most important trends and issues involving human service organizations."
—Mayer N. Zald, Professor (emeritus), Sociology, Social Work, and Management, University of Michigan

The Second Edition of this best-selling text provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art perspective on human service organizations. This vanguard collection weaves the latest theoretical and empirical studies in macro theory with contemporary examples from hospitals, schools, social service organizations, mental health centers, and public welfare agencies. Blending theory with application, this outstanding anthology highlights the moral choices and accomplishments made by human service organizations.

Key Features of This Edition

• Presents the latest theoretical and empirical studies on human service organizations, offering students key analytical tools to study and understand human behavior in various contexts.
• Introduces important new topics, such as the impact of the policy environment, emotional labor, and advocacy
• Offers students a new perspective with original studies on organizational ideologies, conditions of work, structuration of service technologies, diversity, and discretion.

Intended Audience
This exceptional compilation of the best theoretical and empirical studies on human service organizations is indispensable to graduate students and scholars of organization studies, organizational behavior, and Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Since the first edition was published in 1992, there has been a tremendous amount of change in the arena of human services organizations. This book in many ways laid a critical framework of viewing human service organizations as a separate entity than mainstream organizations and management. It set the foundation to view human services differently because human services organizations work on people and therefore have a different set of principles to take into consideration. It presented the idea of viewing human services organizations as organizations that process people as raw material (people processing or people changing).

The new edition will pay particular attention to the cultural perspective and social justice as well as the feminist approach and the view that human services organizations are gendered (i.e., that mostly women work in human services except for men in management). It also will address the issue of advocacy and agents of social change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412956943
• ISBN 13: 9781412956949
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 595
• Éditeur: Hasenfeld Yeheskel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible