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This book guides human service organizations in their transformative efforts to create greater workforce inclusion and well-being through a range of forward-thinking practices. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of
Human Service Organizations.
List of contents
Introduction: Network for Social Work Management Forward Thinking Summit Introduction
1. Promoting Employee Mental Health in the Workplace: Best Practices for COVID-19 and Beyond
2. Dream BIG! The Power of Inspiring Employees to Pursue Their Dreams
3. Leveraging Multisolving to Impact Workforce Wellbeing Through Community Collaboration
4. A Critical Appraisal of Ways Organizations Can Support Social Workers in Light of COVID-19: A Scoping Review
5. The Unintended Influence and Impact: Funder-Mandated Performance Metrics, Service Delivery, and Social Justice
6. Promoting Staff Financial Well-Being in Human Service Organizations: The Role of Pay, Benefits, and Working Conditions
7. Learning to Be a Leader Worth Following
8. Teaching Inclusive Social Work Leadership and Supervision Online and In-Person: A Learning Case
About the author
Karen Hopkins is Professor and Co-Director of the Human-Centered Leadership in Health and Human Services Certificate at the School of Social Work, University of Maryland. Her research with nonprofit and public agencies is related to supervision, management, and leadership practices and outcomes, performance management, workforce development, and organizational learning and capacity building. She has served on the Boards of the Network for Social Work Management, Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), and the Association of Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA). She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Human Services Organizations: Management, Leadership, and Governance.
Bowen McBeath is Professor in the School of Social Work and Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University. He examines how human service organizations and community-based practitioners learn and grow while attending to issues of risk and resilience, equity, and performance pressures. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, and Governance journal.
