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20 hours agoJewel Lundy
u08d1
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According to our text, understanding an organization involves: (1) understanding the organization’s environment and relationships between the organization and significant elements of this environment and (2) understanding the inner workings of the organization itself. Using the tools for assessing the organization outlined in this unit will enable a beginning social worker to better understand the organizational context of the identified problem and proposed changes.
There are three main areas of how organizations operate and they are sectors of the economy (for-profit, non-profit, and public.) According to Rajendran and Chemtab, 2010,bureaucratically structured agencies operate under strict rules and regulations and they are less likely to be utilized by clients. In my line of work as a school counselor, we have many trainings on cultural biases, diversity, and etc. If I were to create my own culturally responsive agency, all involved would need to be trained in the area of culturally sensitive views, gain knowledge in an area of cultural differences, and understand how diversity is needed in the workplace.
Reference:
Rajendran, K., & Chemtob, C. M. (2010). Factors associated with service use among immigrants in the child welfare system. Evaluation and Program Planning, 33(3), 317–323.
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Nilvia Sanchez
UNIT 8 D 1
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Based on the reading “Research on the determinants of FS services can help promote effective and equitable distribution of such services among different sub-groups of people. Most child welfare services research, however, has focused on factors associated with use of mental health services among children (c.f. Burns et al., 2004, Hurlburt et al., 2004, Leslie et al., 2000, Zimmer and Panko, 2006) rather than on FS services. This lack of research on predictors of FS service use is particularly disturbing in the case of immigrants and their children because they may face steeper challenges than other groups in getting services (Elmelech et al., 2002, Lincroft et al., 2006, Shields and Behrman, 2004, Zhou, 1997).” (Rajendran, K., & Chemtob, C. M. (2010).
According to Netting et al. (2016), Many different types of organizations still fall within this definition, and to make sense of such variety, one important issue is the sector in which the organization operates. As discussed in Chapter 6, the three major sectors of the economy are public, nonprofit, or for-profit. These categories are important because the mission, service orientation, and nature of practice in HSOs often vary substantially across sectors. However, distinctions between sectors are not always clear-cut, either. For example, some public agencies now pay private agencies to perform services that were once exclusively governmental, such as child protection and corrections (Xu & Morgan, 2012). Similarly, some private agencies have created for-profit subsidiaries or launched joint ventures with for-profit organizations in different sectors (Levitt & Chiodini, 2014; Reeves, 2013). While the concept of “sector” remains a variable worth considering when assessing HSOs, it also demonstrates the difficulty of neatly fitting organizations into any single category.
Once a group has functioned under severe guidelines it ensures an enormous difference to those that they are intended to help.
More over, “Human service organizations are often difficult to understand. Certainly competing values and paradoxical assumptions add to that difficulty. Without some method for assessing organizational dimensions and determining organizational norms, there is little hope for changing an organization from inside, much less influencing change from outside organizational boundaries. Although their structures may provide clues to their cultures, there are often underlying deep-seated assumptions that establish unspoken norms. Employees, collaborators, students, and others in the helping professions have worked for years in these diverse settings, yet there are few empirically tested guidelines for assessing the cultures of these organizations. The study reported in this paper builds on existing literature and uses a theoretically based instrument to assess field agencies used by one school of social work in a mid-Atlantic state.” (O’Conner, M. K., Netting, F. E., & Fabelo, H. (2009).
Reference
Rajendran, K., & Chemtob, C. M. (2010). Factors associated with service use among immigrants in the child welfare system. Evaluation and Program Planning, 33(3), 317–323.
Netting, F. E., Kettner, P. M., McMurtry, S. L., & Thomas, M. L. (2017). Social work macro practice (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
O’Conner, M. K., Netting, F. E., & Fabelo, H. (2009). A multidimensional agency survey. Administration in Social Work, 33(1), 81–104.