Changing Hats While Managing Change

From Social Work Practice to Administration, 2nd Edition

Preface and Acknowledgements

PART 1. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1 Introducing the Discussion
2. The Context of Social Work Administration
3. Making the Shift from Practice to Administration
4. The Dilemmas of Middle Management
5. Administrative Advocacy and the Management of Change

PART II ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES

6. The Administrator’s Role in Agency Governance
7. The Administrator as Politician
8. The Administrator’s Use of Communication
9. The Administrator and Interorganizational Relations
10. The Administrator’s Work with Volunteers
11. Obtaining and Administering Financial Resources
12 Administering Alternative Social Service Agencies

PART III EPILOGUE: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

13. The Ethical Administrator

References

Index

About the Authors