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Social Work Administration

Social work administration aims to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potential through the provision and distribution of societal resources. It uses general administrative principles and techniques tailored to social work tasks like defining and solving human problems. Social work administration is characterized by its use of social work philosophy, methods of social diagnosis and analysis to understand needs and facilitate agency development and goal achievement. It is important as the framework that maximizes the effectiveness of social programs and quality of social work practice through relating practice to other agency functions. Aspects of social work administration include its functions in dealing with social needs through services, structure in relation to the organization, and continuous process of bringing together people, resources, and purposes to accomplish agency goals of providing social

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Social Work Administration

Social work administration aims to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potential through the provision and distribution of societal resources. It uses general administrative principles and techniques tailored to social work tasks like defining and solving human problems. Social work administration is characterized by its use of social work philosophy, methods of social diagnosis and analysis to understand needs and facilitate agency development and goal achievement. It is important as the framework that maximizes the effectiveness of social programs and quality of social work practice through relating practice to other agency functions. Aspects of social work administration include its functions in dealing with social needs through services, structure in relation to the organization, and continuous process of bringing together people, resources, and purposes to accomplish agency goals of providing social

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Section 2: Social Work Administration

Week 1

 Social Work Administration


o A method of social work concerned with the provision and distribution of
societal resources so as to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their
potentials toward empowering their lives.
o It is based upon the principles and techniques of administration in general but
addressed to the specific social work tasks of defining and solving human
problems and satisfying human needs. – Walter Friedlander

 Major Characteristics of Social Work Administration


o The use of the principles and techniques of administration in general
o The use of the philosophy, aims and functions of social work, its methods of
the social diagnosis, analysis and synthesis of individual, group or community
needs and of generalizations for change or development in agency functions
and goal.
o Working with people based on knowledge and understanding of human
behaviour, human relations, and human organizations.
o Methods encompassing not only in the services provided by the agency but
also in the administrative process and staff relations
o Ethics paying a significant role

 Importance of Social Work Administration


o It is the keystone for maximizing the effectiveness of social work programs in
the solution of social problems and in the betterment of social conditions for
all people.
o It provides the framework for social work practice that relates it to other
agency functions. The quality of social work practices is greatly influenced by
social work administration

 Aspects of Social Work Administration


o Functions
 The means by which identified social needs are dealt with by
appropriate social services, whether under public or private
 The societal action for improved or new services needed by specific
groups or the community as a whole. There is decision making at
every level of administration
o Structure
 Studying it in relation to the organization as an element of
administration
 Knowing that the social welfare agency represents the organizational
structure in social work administration.
o Process
 Social work administration is a continuous, dynamic, and total process
of bringing together people, resources, and purposes to accomplish the
agency goal of providing social services
 Central dimension – the task of work assignment within the
agency structure. There is wide distribution of responsibility in
the agency with the allocation of tasks and functions for every
level of work. The community in which the agency works
affects agency purposes and programs as it is the source of
support as well as the object service.
 Psychosocial dimension – this presupposes that people release
their feelings and energies and that these feelings and energies,
when properly harnessed by administrators constitute the
human resources in achieving agency goals.

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