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Administration and Policy Development: The Organisational Context

  • HSW434
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The unit relates professional social work practice to organisational theory, models of administration and management, and the domain of industrial relations, paying particular attention to the public sector and to human services delivery systems. Organisational forms in which social workers operate will be discussed, including the different levels of government and the non-government sector. The work context for social work practice will be analysed and a number of critiques of the established order presented, including radical change models and feminist analysis of bureaucracies. Social control functions of public welfare will be highlighted as well as issues relating to social justice... -- Course Website

Instructor: A Carrington (S)

Prerequisites: HSW314 (or appropriate experience in a human services organisation as approved by the unit chair)



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