Social Agency Welfare Administration Flashcards
(32 cards)
Process of working with w/ people in wats that release & relate their energies so that they use all available resources to accomplish its purpose of providing needed community services & programs
Social Administration
A method of social work concerned with the provision & distribution of societal resources so as to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potentials towards empowering their lives
Social Administration
It is both function and people. It is getting things done through & with other people using their resources over time
Management
POSDCORB by L. Gulick & L. Urwick
Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Coordinating, Reporting, Budgeting
Refers to establishing a broad sketch of work to be completed and the procedures incorporated to implement them
Planning
It involves formally classifying, defining and synchronizing the various sub-processes or subdivisions of the work to be done.
Organizing
It involves recruiting and selecting the right prospects for the job and ensuring that what they can offer is expended on the right task and maximized by the organization.
Staffing
This refers to decision-making and delegating. This involves provision of detailed instructions and orders to execute them which can be in a tangible form such as a memoranda, circular orders, special orders, and implementing rules and regulations
Directing
This refers to orchestrating and interlinking the various components of the work
Coordinating
This involves regularly updating the superiors about the progress of the work, how far or close the achievement of goals are.
Reporting
This involves all activities under Auditing, Accounting, Fiscal Planning, and Control
Budgeting
These are social entities that are goal-directed, are designed as deliberately structured & coordinated systems, and are linked to the external environment
Organization
Key element of organization are _____ and _____
People and Relationships
Set of completely flexible relationships with low levels of complexity resulting from limited differentiation
Simple Organization
Based on specialized tasks or specialized skills
Functional Organization
It gives a large organization the ability to segregate large sections of the agency’s core functions into semi-autonomous groups. These groupsare mostly self-managed and focused upon a narrow aspect of the agency’s programs or services
Divisional Organization
Structure organizations into semi-autonomous groups based on geographical jurisdictions
Territorial Structure
Combines functional and divisional or territorial structures
Matrix Organization
They are less hierarchical (i.e more flat”), more decentralized, and more flexible than other forms of organizations. Open communication structure of interactions.
Network Structure
It is characterized by an adaptive, creative, and flexible integrative behavior based on non-permanence and spontaneity. It is believed that these characteristics allow adhocracy to respond faster than traditional bureaucratic organizations while being more open to new ideas
Adhocracy
Father of Scientific Management
Frederick Taylor
It is characterized by a large, complex administrative system operating with impersonal detachment from people
Bureaucracy
Father of Modern Management. Also authored the 14 principles of management
Henri Fayol
A bar graph that measures planned and completed work along each stage of production
Gantt Chart
