PRELIM

Question 1

Is the process of efficiently providing resources and services to meet the needs of individuals, families, groups, and communities to facilitate social relationship and adjustment necessary to social functioning

Answer 1

Social Welfare Administration

Question 2

Is a method of social work concerned with the provision and distribution of societal resources so as to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potential towards empowering their lives

Answer 2

Social Work Administration

Question 3

_______ said that ________ is based upon the principles and techniques of administration in general but addressed to the specific social work task of defining and solving human problems and satisfying human needs.

Answer 3

Walter Friedlander
Social Work Administration

Question 4

_______ ________ describes the concept of ____________ as the process of defining and attaining the objectives of the organization through a system of coordination and cooperative effort.

Answer 4

Herman Stein describes the concept of Administration

Question 5

The two primary elements of administration.

Answer 5

Organization and management

Question 6

The setting up of the framework or structure of the different units of the system to carry out or perform distinct tasks for the attainment of the goals of the administration.

Answer 6

Organization

Question 7

The Dimensions Social Work Administration

Answer 7

Central Dimension
Psychosocial Dimensions

Question 8

The task of work assignment within the agency structure. There is a wide distribution of responsibility in the agency with the allocation of tasks and functions for every level of work

Answer 8

Central Dimension

Question 9

People release their feelings and energies and that these feelings and energies, when properly harnessed by administrators, constitute the human resources in achieving agency goals

Answer 9

Psychosocial Dimensions

Question 10

Aspects of Social Work Administration

Answer 10

Functions
Structure
Process

Question 11

Social work administration is a continuous, dynamic, and total process of bringing together people, resources, and purposed to accomplish agency goal of providing social services.

Answer 11

Process

Question 12

Structured framework within which an administrative tasks are carried out. It is an instrument of society, established through government initiative or through voluntary efforts to achieve a social goal

Answer 12

Social Welfare Agency

Question 13

______ ______ outlines how a _______ in its simplest form comes into being when “severe people see an unmet need, want to meet that need, get community permission to meet that need, and accept legal responsibility for seeing that the resources secured, or made available, are used for the specific for which they were given rather than for some other purpose.”

Answer 13

Peter Drucker, Social Welfare Agency

Question 14

Types of Social Welfare Agencies

Answer 14

Governmental or Public Agencies
Private or Voluntary Agencies
Semi-Government or Quasi-Governmental Organizations

Question 15

A public agency is created:

Answer 15

By constitutional mandate
By legislator act
By executive order of the president/ presidential decrees/ letters of instructions.

Question 16

It is a whole, with each part bearing a dynamic relation to every other part and all are interdependent

Answer 16

Social System

Question 17

A ______, according to _______, is a “purposefully organized interrelationship of components in which the performance of the whole exceeds the individual outputs of all the parts.”

Answer 17

System according to William Link

Question 18

Basic Components of Social System

Answer 18

Input
Output
Throughput

Question 19

The _______ into the system may be human resources, work methods, or a set of beliefs from the environment. They find a way of relating to each other within the system. A change in one input may affect the entire system.

Answer 19

Input

Question 20

It represents what the system is doing in relation to its goal.

Answer 20

Output

Question 21

This refers to the conversion process of inputs to outputs.

Answer 21

Throughput

Question 22

Is the activity that allocates and utilizes resources to achieve the goals of the organization.

Answer 22

Management

Question 23

Refers to equal ratio of man and women and frequently in the news you will read stories about it in corporate boardrooms and other areas traditionally dominated by men.

Answer 23

Gender Diversity

Question 24

Basic Principles of Social Administration

Answer 24

Acceptance
Democratic Participation
Open Communication

Question 25

He uses the term social functioning in his definition of professional social work.

Answer 25

Welmer Boehm

Question 26

_____ _______ implies, therefore, that ______ ______ as a field of administration and social work as a profession may be considered to have shared objectives.

Answer 26

Edward Schwarts, Social Welfare

Question 27

Administration as a method of practice revolves primarily on the following

Answer 27

1. Determination of goals and/or setting of objectives;
2. Formulation of plans;
3. Formulation of policies;
4. Maintenance of an organization;
5. Securing of resources;

Question 28

Basic Characteristics of Administration

Answer 28

1. Administration is a human enterprise that involves the activity of people in the organization.
2. It is a continuous, dynamic process for a common purpose or goal
3. The resources of the people and materials are harnessed and coordinated to achieve organizational goals.
4. Leadership is implicit in administration.

Question 29

_____ is considered a a process, a method, or a set of relationships between and among people working towards common objectives in an organizations

Answer 29

Administration

Question 30

The tendency of an organization (system) to maintain a uniform and beneficial stability within and between the parts

Answer 30

System Equilibrium

Question 31

Refers to more specifically to the administrative process in social welfare agency, the formulation of its policies and plans and their implementation into programs and services for specific client groups

Answer 31

Social Welfare Administration

Question 32

Focuses on the policies, planning and administration of goods and services in relation to the political, social and economic institutions and to the determinants of the distribution of national resources to social welfare needs

Answer 32

Social Work

Question 33

Is a whole with each part bearing a dynamic relation to every other part and all are interdependent

Answer 33

Social System

Question 34

An organization comes into being when:

Answer 34

a. There are persons able to communicate with each other,
b. Who are willing to contribute action, and
c. To accomplish a common purpose.

Question 35

Refers to the factors, forces, situations, and events outside the organization that affects its performance

Answer 35

External Environment

Question 36

The shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act.

Answer 36

Organizational Culture

Question 37

TRECKER’S PRINCIPLES

Answer 37

The Principle of Social Work Values
The Principle of Communication
The Principle of change:
The Principle of Coordination
The Principle of cultural setting
The Principle of evaluation
The Principle of participation:
The Principle of Leadership:
The Principle of agency purpose
The Principle of purposeful relationship

Question 38

Social Work Core Values

Answer 38

Right to self-fulfillment
Responsibility to common good
Responsibility of the Society
Right to Satisfy Basic Needs
Social Organizations required to facilitate individual’s effort at self-realization
Self-realization and contribution to society

Question 39

The clientele to be served comes from the community as well as the resource inputs for its support and maintenance.

Answer 39

Open System

Question 40

Is one that is not affected by its external environment. It may apply to an agency the programs and services of which remain constant despite changes in the socio economic and/or political changes

Answer 40

Closed System

Question 41

It applies to the many levels of systems and subsystems. According to _____, the study of a ______ _______ moves from a small view (i.e. microcosm) to a large view (i.e. macrocosm of systems.

Answer 41

Multiple Systems
William Link
Multiple Systems