4. According to:
John Kidneigh – SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION is
the process of transforming social policy into social
services… a two way process:
(1) Transforming policy into concrete social services, and
(2) The use of experience in recommending modification of
policy.
Stein – SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION is the
process of defining and---the objectives of an organization
through a system of coordinated and cooperative effort.
Skidmore – SOCIAL WORK ADMINISTRATION is the
action of staff members who utilize social policies of
agencies into the delivery of social services.
5. Basic Assumptions and Principles of SWA
1. Administration of social agencies is the process
of securing and transforming community
resources (human and financial) into a program
of community service.
2. Administration in social work is concerned in a
major way with enterprise determination,
which includes goal formation.
3. Administration in social work is concerned in a
major way with “provisioning” the service.
4. The executive is not a neutral agent.
6. 5. The executive’s functions within the agency
combine the following:
a) to provide a seeing-the-enterprise-as-a-whole
quality,
b) to participate in a leadership capacity and
policy formation,
c) to delegate, coordinate, and control the work
of others to promote and enhance the work
of board and staff,
d) to provide for board, staff, and community an
executive who represents in personal
attitudes, abilities, and activities a person
with whom they can identify positively.
7. 6. Administration is involved with
the creative use of human
resources --- board, staff, and
volunteer.
7. The parts of the enterprise are
interrelated and interacting.
8. What one does not do has an
effect as well as what one does
do.
8. A major part of social work
administration.
Concerned with helping staff to use their
knowledge and skill in getting the job
done efficiently and well.
A response to the needs of clients and the
mandate of the community to relieve
suffering and to restore people to greater
usefulness.
Supervision is teaching
9. Educational Principles of Supervision
The supervisee participates actively in
his or her own learning.
Based on the assumption that the
worker learns best when taking
responsibility for one’s own learning.
Workers learn by doing.
Workers learn by his or her whole self.
The worker-supervisor relationship is
the main dynamic in learning.
10. Important part of administration,
which is the means by which
agencies are able to extend and
improve their services to clients.
An interaction between
professional persons who explore
a problem to find a solution that
will best serve the needs of the
client.
11. Assumptions of Consultation
1. That the consultant has a greater knowledge
than the consultee in the areas of agency and
worker needs, which can be communicated in
usable form.
2. That the consultant can help the consultee to
improve upon the use of his or her skills, or to
acquire new ones for the better performance of
the job.
3. That the consultee can use the process to
enhance his or her caretaking function by
clarifying thinking, elaborating his or her own
ideas, and defining treatment goals and
purposes.
12. Principles of Consultation
1. Consultation is a helping process involving
the use of technical knowledge and a
professional relationship with one or more
person.
2. The consultant has a conviction that the
consultee can do the job he or she is
assigned to do.
3. The consultant-consultee role is task-
oriented and is connected with only certain
aspects of the consultee’s function.
4. The consultee must be free to accept or
reject the services of the consultant.
13. A device for making treatment as
total and as effective as possible by a
wide and discriminating use of
resources, and by combining
professional competences.
A shared experience in which the
knowledge of professionals,
paraprofessionals, and indigenous
workers is shared in the various
processes of service delivery.
14. Teamwork Concepts
The team is cooperative democratic group
of professional individuals who work
together to provide diagnosis and
treatment. It is a fellowship of people and
ideas. A union of interdependent inquiry.
Teamwork is predicated on the
individuality of the participating
disciplines. It derives its strengths through
the preservation of differences.
Teamwork does not just happen. It is a
process.
15.
16. A systematic inquiry
regarding social institutions
and problems, the process of
obtaining social facts, or
methodological inquiry into
social phenomena.
22. 1.) Experimental Research
Encompasses statistical methodology is
being used considerably and involves
study of a number of cases.
2.) Case Study
Intensive study of one or few cases,
keeping in mind that an understanding of
a specific case may be helpful in acquiring
knowledge of human behavior and social
functioning.
23. 3.) Social Survey
Attempt to study on a broad basis a given
neighborhood or community and to attempt
to understand the underlying foundations and
principles related to social problems, the
behavior of people within these localities, and
the total social milieu.
4.) Human Ecological Approach
This emphasizes the spatial distribution of
human behavior and attempts to explain why
there are differentials, geographically
speaking, in regards to social conditions and
problems.
24. 5.) Historical Approach
This attempts to gives perspectives from the
past for understanding present issues,
problems, and plans of action, and to help in
improving situations. This can be
accomplished through library study, interview,
viewing original documents of various kunds,
and through objective study, comparison, and
contrast of various materials.
6.) Evaluation Research
An approach to assess program effectiveness---
in social work, particularly social programs
designed to improve the welfare of people.
