Empowering workers and clients for organizational change
"Empowering Workers and Clients for Organizational Change teaches students to effectively engage in organizational change at the service delivery level...The contributors discuss strategies for assessing the structural characteristics of agencies, organizational culture, and empowerment, and pr...
| Other Authors: | Cohen, Marcia B., 1950-, Hyde, Cheryl A. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
Lyceum Books, Inc.,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 232 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Key concepts and frameworks
- Characteristics and culture of human service organizations /
- Cheryl A. Hyde and Marcia B. Cohen
- Power and empowerment in human service organizations /
- Cheryl A. Hyde and Marcia B. Cohen
- Organziational assessment for change /
- Marcia B. Cohen and Cheryl A. Hyde
- Social justice and the ethics of organizational change from below /
- Brett A. Seabury, Marcia B. Cohen, and Cheryl A. Hyde
- Part II. Case studies
- Social capital and social networks: a strategy for organizational change from below /
- Jacqueline B. Mondros
- Combating discriminatory practices in child welfar services: the Burgos Consent Decree /
- Edward Gumz [et al.]
- Social movements within organizations: insurgency at the shelter /
- Cheryl A. Hyde
- Rebecca's Place : women experiencing homelessness changing organizational structure and attitudes about them /
- Helen P. Hartnett
- Beyond inclusion training : changing human service and public organizations /
- June Ying Yee, Helen Wong, and Tanja Schlabitz
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- Transforming grassroots organizing tale : if you can't walk, you can't ride /
- Nancy Ayer
- Overcoming organizational obstacles to forming empowerment groups : a consumer advisory board for homeless clients /
- Marcia B. Cohen
- Part III. The student as change agent
- Bullying : organizational change in a middle school /
- Jeremy Brown
- Linguistic liabilities : refugee parents' right to know in a language they understand /
- Judy Peters
- Documenting homelessness : organizational change at a homeless resource center /
- Amy Russell.