Locating distributed leadership

This special issue addresses a number of the key themes that have been surfacing from the literature on distributed leadership (DL) for some time. Together with those papers selected to be included in this special issue, the authors set out both to explore and contribute to a number of the current academic debates in relation to DL, while at the same time examining the extent to which research on DL has permeated the management field. The paper examines a number of key concepts, ideas and themes in relation to DL and, in so doing, highlights the insights offered through new contributions and interpretations. The paper offers a means by which forms of DL might be conceptualized to be better incorporated into researchers' scholarship and research, and a framework is presented which considers a number of different dimensions of DL, how it may be planned, and how it may emerge, together with how it may or may not align with other organizational activities and aspects. © 2011 The Authors. International Journal of Management Reviews © 2011 British Academy of Management and Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Developmental social case work : a process model

Abstract: Social development has been adopted as South Africa’s social welfare approach and is increasingly being adopted in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The translation of developmental social welfare to social work has, however, been difficult for many social workers. A particularly challenging aspect of this translation concerns the practice of social case work within a social development approach, a topic that has received virtually no attention in the social development literature. This paper constructs a process model for a form of social case work that is informed by social development principles and priorities

Strategies of policy advocacy organizations and their theoretical affinities: Evidence from Q-methodology

Policy advocacy is an increasingly important function for many nonprofit organizations, yet their advocacy activities have largely escaped theoretical grounding. The literature on nonprofits has described how they engage in policy advocacy, without linking them to theories of policy change. The policy studies literature, on the other hand, has explained how various forms of influence result in policy change, but has largely ignored organizational perspectives on those processes. These two literatures remain largely disconnected. Drawing upon interviews with a purposive sample of policy advocacy directors at 31 nonprofit organizations, this study applies Q-methodology to identify and describe six distinct policy advocacy strategies employed by the organizations, and their resonant theoretical views of policy processes. These findings suggest strategic approaches for nonprofits seeking to influence policy processes. They also enhance the academic literature on policy processes by adding the advocates\u27 views and expectations. Implications for further research are also identified

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Introduction to social work and social welfare : critical thinking perspectives/ Kirst-Ashman

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Macro skills workbook: A generalist approach, 2nd Ed./ Kirst-Ashman

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Human behavior, communities, organizations, and group in the macro social environment: an empowerment approach/ Kirst-Ashman

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Exploration of the Family Environment and Problems of Uncontrollable Adolescents

128 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983.Seventy-four families in which the parents defined their adolescent as uncontrollable were studied. Research questions focused on the following: (1) Problem type, severity, duration, and cause. (2) Social climate dimensions within the family including cohesion, organization, expressiveness, independence, control, and conflict.Agency workers gathered information from parents and adolescents during initial intake interviews using the Family Environment Scale (FES) by R. H. Moos and accompanying informational and attitudinal questionnaires.A demographic and problem profile was provided. Problems were perceived as long-standing and serious. Mothers were more likely to blame the adolescents for problems and the adolescents to blame themselves.In comparison with the population on which the FES was standardized, this sample demonstrated lower levels of cohesion, expressiveness, and independence, in addition to a higher level of control. Levels of conflict and oganization were similar to those in the standardized population. This suggests that these families are unable to handle "normal" levels of conflict, and that parents have difficulty coping with their adolescents' normal developmental needs for independence.Implications regarding potential treatment alternatives and future directions of research were discussed.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD