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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"human service"”.
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Worker participation within the human service context
… analyses participation of workers within two human service organisations, within the education field in the Western Cape. It also examines the reasons, degrees and levels of participation as well as the impact it has on individual workers and the organisations as a whole. The case study method …
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Constructing occupational stress in a human service agency.
… multiple meanings of occupational stress in a human service agency by using a constructivist approach. It was posited that such an approach could transcend some of the problems that have plagued conventional approaches to stress research, particularly, the difficulty in defining constructs, the …
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Information use by levels in human service organizations
… frequency with which information about clients, services, staff, and finances are used by human service workers. The 241 questionnaire items were developed from 66 information items determined to meet minimum information requirements for community mental health centers (CMHCs).
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Eight effective practices of successful human service contract managers
… other non-governmental entities for delivery of services. Specifically, state and local governments increasingly contract for social services. This dissertation identifies eight effective practices that successful human service contract managers use in the negotiating and contracting process. It …
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Habilitation in focus : A human service organization and its challenges
… focuses especially health and medically related services provided by the local children habilitation centres (CHC: s), where everyday services are carried out by interprofessional teams of habilitation specialists.The objective was to critically examine the CHC as a human service organization. …
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Mapping Urban Infrastructure: Temporal Metropolitan Geographies of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations
Across the United States, planning for human services relies largely upon public-private partnerships with nonprofit organizations as the result of decades of federal retrenchment. The locational patterns of nonprofit human services organizations (NHSOs) have been studied in the nonprofit …
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An Inquiry into the Necessary Organizational Conditions for Effective Human Service Delivery
… conditions necessary for effective human service delivery. The first article provides a conceptualization by examining existent literature on the condition-performance relationship, integrating theories of organizational complexity and organizational culture, and concluding with …
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The social construction of interprofessional teams in human service organizations: Two case studies
The study explores the way in which professional members who were engaged in struggles with each other around the nature and extent of autonomy over their work, and/or control over the work of others, socially constructed interprofessional team relations and processes. There were two major …
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Identification of Core Multidisciplinary Competencies in an Integrated Public Health and Human Service System
… legislative and social forces, public health and human service systems are becoming more integrative, requiring direct service practitioners to acquire new competencies to successfully perform in these new settings. In a review of the literature, competencies pertaining to team effectiveness, …
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A Retrospective Analysis of Pay Strategies on Staffing Metrics in a Human-Service Organization
… thereby contributing to the labor shortage. Human-service settings that employ Direct Support Professionals face these challenges, which are exacerbated by the stressful conditions characteristic of working in human-service settings. One approach to address this issue is to adopt various pay …
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Women in Human Service Professions Elementary School Teachers and Public Health Nurses: A Comparative Analysis
… paper examines job satisfaction for women in human service professions. Elementary school teachers and public health nurses were the subjects of comparison. The study looked at factors such as! workload, recognition, stress, compensation, gender stereotypes, and attrition. The results of the …
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Leadership in human service organisations: Conceptions, strategies and preconditions to promote and maintain health at work
… to promote and maintain health at work in human service organisations. Methods: The qualitative study I and prospective study II are both part of a research and development programme (The SAMS study) of workplace health promotion (WHP) projects and the setting was the City of Göteborg. …
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Public-private partnership in the transfer of technology to human service programs by Ruth A. Bruer
… the implications of this transfer process for human service programs responsive to the public interest. This provides a lucrative realm for examining the process as an outgrowth of public-private partnerships. Analysis of a partnership in five case studies illustrates the dynamics between …
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THE HUMAN SERVICE PROVIDER COMPETENCE ABOUT REPORTING VIOLENCE ON WOMEN WITH DISABILITY SCALE: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION
… disabilities frequently come in contact with human service providers; however, provider-based prejudice coupled with lack of education about women’s issues result in failing to screen for violence, or error in reporting. This study focused on measuring disability service providers’ competence …
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"Candles of the nation": community-based nonprofit human service institutions in the process of public governance
In the new State, Mary Parker Follett argues that the â neighborhood groupâ is the center of citizenship and democratic governance. In doing so, she takes us into territory that remains largely unexplored: social processes and how they can create an ideal democracy.
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Managing the IT relationship: A critical realist view of the small non government human service organisation experience
… of these can be classified as Non Government Human Service Organisations (NGHSOs). These organisations provide an array of services to people experiencing disadvantage. In the emerging information intensive climate, NGHSOs are increasingly under pressure to consider their own use of …
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