Chapter 1 Flashcards
A process, method, or a set of relationships between and among people working toward common objectives in an organization.
Administration
He described the concept of administration as the process of defining and attaining the objectives of the organization through a system of coordination and cooperative effort.
Herman Stein
Human enterprise that involves activity of people in an organization. (Continuous and dynamic for a common goal)
Administration
Two primary elements of administration
Organization and management
The activity that allocates and utilizes resources to achieve specific goals in an organization. It is also a scientific utilization if manpower, money, machined, materials, etc.
Management
Method of social work concerned with the provision of societal resources so as to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potentials toward empowering their lives.
Social work administration
It uses principles and techniques of administration in general.
Social work administration
Keystone for maximizing effectiveness of social work programs in the solution of social problems
Social work administration
A structured framework within which the administrative tasks are carried out.
Social welfare agency
Social welfare agencies according to Vinter and Sarri should be viewed as both
Administrative bureaucracies and social systems
A whole with each part bearing a dynamic relation to every other part and all are interdependent (concept of agency purpose)
Social system
Human resource, work method, set of beliefs
Input
What the system is doing in relation with its goals
Output
Conversion process of input and outputs
Throughput
Staff, budget, building
Input
Management
Throughput
Program and services
Output
Clientele to be served comes from the community as well as the resource inputs for its support and maintenance
Open system
Not affected by its external environment.
Closed system
Apply to the many levels of system and sub system
Multiple system
The tendency of the organization to maintain a uniform and beneficial stability between its parts
Systems equilibrium
Stated course of action adopted and followed by the organization in doing its work
Policy
Written statement formally adopted by the board (made known to guide provision of service)
Agency policy
Eight stages in policy formulation
Harry Specht
A course of action for reaching a goal beginning now or at any prederermined time in the future
Plan
Process of anticipating goals and preparing a plan for reaching them
Planning
Achieve goals with a minimum of cost and effecr
Efficiency
Achieve the desired results which is to help the people in need
Effectiveness
Formulation of broad issues confronting the program
Substantive plan
