Social Work Management and Leadership - Managing Complexity With Creativity

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services, and these concepts now form part of the post-qualification framework for social workers. This text promotes an appreciation of the development of management and leadership thinking and the different themes which inform current ideas on those topics. 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

Product details

• Authors: Andy Bilson, Bilson Andy, John Lawler, John Bilson Lawler, Lawler John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780415459051
• ISBN: 978-0-415-45905-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Medicine, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Non-profitmaking organizations, Public ownership / nationalization, Medicine and Nursing