1st Edition

Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations

By Hillel Schmid Copyright 2005
234 Pages
by Routledge

233 Pages
by Routledge

233 Pages
by Routledge

Improve your organization’s performance for the well-being of your clients! Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations explores the common pitfalls that plague nonprofit human service organizations and cause them to fail in their missions. In this book, leading scholars analyze and evaluate the inherent difficulties that impede effectiveness in these... Read more
  • The Role of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in Providing Social Services: A Prefatory Essay (Hillel Schmid)
  • The Changing Identity of Federated Community Service Organizations (Eleanor Brilliant and Dennis R. Young)
  • Congregations as Social Service Providers: Services, Capacity, Culture, and Organizational Behavior (Ram A. Cnaan, Jill W. Sinha, and Charlene C. McGrew)
  • Volunteer and Paid Staff Relationships: Implications for Social Work Administration (F. Ellen Netting, H. Wayne Nelson, Jr., Kevin Borders, and Ruth Huber)
  • The Role of Non-Profit Agencies in the Provision of Welfare-to-Work Services (Yeheskel Hasenfeld and Lisa Evans Powell)
  • Nonprofit Organizations and Welfare-to-Work: Environmental Turbulence and Organizational Change (Elizabeth A. Mulroy and Melissa Back Tamburo)
  • Searching for Utopia: The Cycles of Service Provider Preferences (Margaret Gibelman)
  • Flameout at the Top—Executive Calamity in the Nonprofit Sector: Its Precursors and Sequelae (John E. Tropman and Luke H. Shaefer)
  • Ownership and Age in Nonprofit and For-Profit Home Care Organizations: What Makes the Difference? (Hillel Schmid and Ronit Nirel)
  • Social Work Graduates and Welfare Economy Sector Preferences: A Cross-National Perspective (Idit Weiss and John Gal)
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Schmid, Hillel