Social Work Management and Leadership

Managing Complexity with Creativity
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-45905-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services and now form part of the post qualification framework for social workers. Yet, whilst there is a relatively broad understanding of management concepts and their application in social care, their foundations often go unchallenged both by students and managers. Furthermore, leadership is open to a wide range of interpretations and is often ill-defined with the expectation that we share a common understanding of the term.

This text promotes an appreciation of the development of management and leadership thinking and the different themes which inform current ideas. It considers these topics from a range of theoretical standpoints in order to stimulate readers to consider their own experience and expectations of management and leadership. It then demonstrates how these standpoints might promote innovative approaches to management and leadership within social care organisations and ways in which such organisations might then develop. The aim of this challenging text is to encourage critical and informed reflection on current practice.

Social Work Management and Leadership is essential reading for students of management and leadership in social care as well as being an invaluable resource for managers who simply wish to consider new approaches to their practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawler, John (Bradford University, UK)

Lawler, John

Bilson, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction 2.Governance, Markets And Managerialism; And A Framework For Alternative Approaches 3.The Individual Manager And Leader Through A Rational-Objectivist Lens 4.The Reflective Individual In Management And Leadership 5.Rational Planning And Control Rational-Objective Approaches To Organizations 6.New Metaphors For Management Reflective-Pluralist Approaches To Organizations 7.Challenges For Social Work Management And Leadership 8.Towards Ethical Management And Leadership In Social Work

Über Autor(innen)

John Lawler is Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management at the University of Bradford, UK.

Andy Bilson is Professor of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.