Author: Jerry W. RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Organization Styles in Community Groups
Author: Jerry W. RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Organization Styles in Community Groups
Author: Jerry W. RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community organization
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Building Powerful Community Organizations
Author: Michael Jacoby BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Using stories and exercises from grassroots organizing experience ... [this book] walks you through the steps of starting a new group or strengthening an old one - to build a better world.-Back cover.
The Handbook of Large Group Methods
Author: Barbara Benedict BunkerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118429583
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems. The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes the next step in demonstrating through a series of cases how Large Group Methods are currently being used to address twenty-first-century challenges in organizations and communities today, including: Working with widely dispersed organizations, and the problem of involvement and participation Working with organizations facing a serious business crisis Working with organizations in polarized and politicized environments Working in community settings with diverse interest groups Working at the global level and adapting these methods for cross-cultural use Embedding and sustaining new patterns of working together in organizations and communities
Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organizations
Author: Charles A. GlissonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118176952
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A solid, theory-to-practice guide to contemporary mezzo and macro social work Written by a renowned team of scholars, Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organizations focuses on the contemporary theory and practice of social work. Each chapter delves deeply into the key theoretical considerations surrounding a particular practice area, exploring the clinical implications of each. Spanning the full range of both mezzo and macro practice areas, the authors thoroughly look at the assessment of and interventions with group, community, organizational, and institutional settings. The most authoritative book in this field, Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organizations features: A focus on evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention for each practice area discussed Comprehensive coverage of the most important new and emerging practice technologies in mezzo and macro social work Current and emerging demographic, social, political, and economic trends affecting mezzo and macro practice An array of pedagogical aids, including Key Terms, Review Questions for Critical Thinking, and Online Resources Content closely aligned with social work accreditation standards (EPAS) Providing a solid review of the entire scope of contemporary mezzo and macro social work practice, Social Work Practice with Groups, Communities, and Organizations is both an indispensable educational text for students and a valuable working resource for practitioners who work with groups, communities, and organizations of all sizes.
Strategies of Community Organization
Author: Fred M. CoxPublisher: Wadsworth
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Open Organization
Author: Jim WhitehurstPublisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1625275277
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Based on open source principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration, "open management" challenges conventional business ideas about what companies are, how they run, and how they make money. This book provides the blueprint for putting it into practice in your own firm. He covers challenges that have been missing from the conversation to date, among them: how to scale engagement; how to have healthy debates that net progress; and how to attract and keep the "Social Generation" of workers. Through a mix of vibrant stories, candid lessons, and tested processes, Whitehurst shows how Red Hat has blown the traditional operating model to pieces by emerging out of a pure bottom up culture and learning how to execute it at scale. And he explains what other companies are, and need to be doing to bring this open style into all facets of the organization.
Organization of Community Groups in Support of the Planning Process and Code Enforcement Administration
Author: Robert E. KnittelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community organization
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Virtual Community, revised edition
Author: Howard RheingoldPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262261104
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking. Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community—one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe others. At the same time that he tells moving stories about people who have received online emotional support during devastating illnesses, he acknowledges a darker side to people's behavior in cyberspace. Indeed, contends Rheingold, people relate to each other online much the same as they do in physical communities. Originally published in 1993, The Virtual Community is more timely than ever. This edition contains a new chapter, in which the author revisits his ideas about online social communication now that so much more of the world's population is wired. It also contains an extended bibliography.
Communities of Practice
Author: Etienne WengerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107268370
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic.