Undergraduate - UnitSWK3370 - Social welfare and management

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Social Work
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Kerry Brydon

Synopsis

Most social welfare practitioners deliver their services in an organizational setting. In order to work effectively it is important to understand organizational processes and the ways these may impact on practice. This unit studies organizational theory and structure and research knowledge about organizations as the basis for assessing social welfare organizations. The unit will have a focus on child welfare and aged care organizations.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe the nature and special attributes of human service organizations, with particular reference to child welfare and aged care;
Review the major theories of organizations and apply these analyses to how human services organizations operate and how they might operate differently with particular reference to child welfare and aged care;
Critically review other important concepts such as organizational structure, the distribution of power, and formalization and centralization and how these attributes affect the operation of human service organizations;
Apply the key concepts on program planning and evaluation and have beginning skills in planning and evaluation; and
Apply key principles concerned with planning and carrying out of organizational change.