Organization, policy, and practice in the human services / created by Bernard Neugeboren.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Longman, c1985.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents Foreword Social Care, Social Control, and Rehabilitation Organizational Goals Management Models Organizational Structure Organizational Subsystems Bureaucracy, Bureaupathology, Bureausis, and Good Bureaucrat Occupational Burnout Authority, Control, and Power Leadership Administrative Decision Making Organizational Change Interorganizational Relations Professional Ideologies Human Service Technologies Epilogue Appendix

Here is a timely, insightful book that greatly increases the effectiveness of human service professionals and the organizations in which they function. Organization, Policy, and Practice in the Human Services is the first such text to bring together in a systematic fashion the concepts of organizational theory, policy, and practice in the human services. Offering a basic orientation to the structure and operations of social service organizations, Neugeboren addresses society's need for the successful operation of these complex institutions in our highly organized society.