PRELIM Flashcards
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
Social Welfare Administration
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
Social Work Administration
_______ 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.
Walter Friedlander
Social Work Administration
_______ ________ describes the concept of ____________ as the process of defining and attaining the objectives of the organization through a system of coordination and cooperative effort.
Herman Stein describes the concept of Administration
The two primary elements of administration.
Organization and management
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.
Organization
The Dimensions Social Work Administration
Central Dimension
Psychosocial Dimensions
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
Central Dimension
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
Psychosocial Dimensions
Aspects of Social Work Administration
Functions
Structure
Process
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.
Process
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
Social Welfare Agency
______ ______ 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.”
Peter Drucker, Social Welfare Agency
Types of Social Welfare Agencies
Governmental or Public Agencies
Private or Voluntary Agencies
Semi-Government or Quasi-Governmental Organizations
A public agency is created:
By constitutional mandate
By legislator act
By executive order of the president/ presidential decrees/ letters of instructions.
It is a whole, with each part bearing a dynamic relation to every other part and all are interdependent
Social System
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.”
System according to William Link
Basic Components of Social System
Input
Output
Throughput
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.
Input
It represents what the system is doing in relation to its goal.
Output
This refers to the conversion process of inputs to outputs.
Throughput
Is the activity that allocates and utilizes resources to achieve the goals of the organization.
Management
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.
Gender Diversity
Basic Principles of Social Administration
Acceptance
Democratic Participation
Open Communication
He uses the term social functioning in his definition of professional social work.
Welmer Boehm
_____ _______ implies, therefore, that ______ ______ as a field of administration and social work as a profession may be considered to have shared objectives.
Edward Schwarts, Social Welfare
Administration as a method of practice revolves primarily on the following
- Determination of goals and/or setting of objectives;
- Formulation of plans;
- Formulation of policies;
- Maintenance of an organization;
- Securing of resources;
Basic Characteristics of Administration
- Administration is a human enterprise that involves the activity of people in the organization.
- It is a continuous, dynamic process for a common purpose or goal
- The resources of the people and materials are harnessed and coordinated to achieve organizational goals.
- Leadership is implicit in administration.
_____ is considered a a process, a method, or a set of relationships between and among people working towards common objectives in an organizations
Administration
The tendency of an organization (system) to maintain a uniform and beneficial stability within and between the parts
System Equilibrium
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
Social Welfare Administration
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
Social Work
Is a whole with each part bearing a dynamic relation to every other part and all are interdependent
Social System
An organization comes into being when:
a. There are persons able to communicate with each other,
b. Who are willing to contribute action, and
c. To accomplish a common purpose.
Refers to the factors, forces, situations, and events outside the organization that affects its performance
External Environment
The shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act.
Organizational Culture
TRECKER’S PRINCIPLES
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
Social Work Core Values
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
The clientele to be served comes from the community as well as the resource inputs for its support and maintenance.
Open System
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
Closed System
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.
Multiple Systems
William Link
Multiple Systems
