Human Services as Complex Organizations
Second Edition
- Yeheskel Hasenfeld - UCLA, School of Social Welfare
October 2009 | 608 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Since the first edition was published in 1992, there has been a tremendous amount of change in the arena of human services organizations. This book in many ways laid a critical framework of viewing human service organizations as a separate entity than mainstream organizations and management. It sets the foundation to view human services differently because human services organizations work on people and therefore have a different set of principles to take into consideration. It presented the idea of viewing human services organizations as organizations that process people as raw material (people processing or people changing).
The new edition will pay particular attention to the cultural perspective and social justice as well as the feminist approach and the view that human services organizations are gendered (i.e., that mostly women work in human services except for men in management). It also will address the issue of advocacy and agents of social change.
Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Chapter 1: Introduction
PART I: UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Chapter 2: The Attributes of Human Service Organizations
Eve Garrow and Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Chapter 3: Theoretical Approaches to Human Service Organizations
PART II: SOCIAL POLICY AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
Chapter 4: Human Service Organizations and the Politics of Practice
Kirsten A. Grønbjerg
Chapter 5: The U.S. Nonprofit Human Service Sector: A Creeping Revolution
Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Chapter 6: Organizational Forms as Moral Practices
PART III: ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS
Debra C. Minkoff
Chapter 7: The Emergence of Hybrid Organizational Forms: Combining Identity-Based Service Provision and Political Action
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Chapter 8: The Political Economy of Contracting and Competition
Keith G. Provan and H. Brinton Milward
Chapter 9: A Preliminary Theory of Interorganizational Network Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Four Community Mental Health Systems
PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP, IDEOLOGIES, AND CULTURE
Hillel Schmid
Chapter 10: Leadership Styles and Leadership Change in Human and Community Service Organizations
Patricia Yancey Martin
Chapter 11: Rape Crisis Centers: Helping Victims, Changing Society
Anthony L. Hemmelgarn, Charles Glisson, and Lawrence R. James
Chapter 12: Organizational Culture and Climate: Implications for Services and Intervention Research
PART V: SERVICE TECHNOLOGIES, CONDITIONS OF WORK, AND EMOTIONAL LABOR
Brenda D. Smith
Chapter 13: Service Technologies and the Conditions of Work in Child Welfare
Jodi R. Sandfort
Chapter 14: Human Service Organizational Technology: Improving Understanding and Advancing Research
Mary Ellen Guy, Meredith A. Newman, Sharon H. Mastracci, and Steven Maynard-Moody
Chapter 15: Emotional Labor in the Human Service Organization
PART VI: ORGANIZATIONAL DIVERSITY
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Chapter 16: Human Services as “Race Work”? Historical Lessons and Contemporary Challenges of Black Providers
Michàlle E. Mor Barak and Dnika J. Travis
Chapter 17: Diversity and Organizational Performance
PART VII: WORKER-CLIENT RELATIONS
Michael R. Sosin
Chapter 18: Discretion in Human Service Organizations: Traditional and Institutional Perspectives
Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Chapter 19: Worker-Client Relations: Social Policy in Practice
PART VIII: ORGANIZATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF SERVICE EFFECTIVENESS
Toorjo Ghose
hapter 20: Linking Organizational Factors to Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes: Multilevel Correlates of Treatment Effectiveness
PART IX: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND INNOVATION
Hillel Schmid
Chapter 21: Organizational Change in Human Service Organizations: Theories, Boundaries, Strategies, and Implementation
Kristina Jaskyte
Chapter 22: Innovation in Human Service Organizations
PART X: ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Jennifer E. Mosley
Chapter 23: The Policy Advocacy Role of Human Service Nonprofits: Incentives, Involvement, and Impact
Megan Meyer
Chapter 24: Social Movement Service Organizations: The Challenges and Consequences of Combining Service Provision and Political Advocacy
User friendly introduction to the field
Comprehensive yet not overwhelming
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