MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

GSC2309

Welfare organisational practice III

Offered subject to approval

Helen McAdam

Synopsis This subject will examine two areas of organisational practice: organisational theory and law. Students will study organisational structure, workgroup behaviour, competitive tendering, administrative skills, the Australian legal system, and how the law impacts upon social work organisations. The subject will include a compulsory twenty-day field education placement, the aim of which is to integrate organisational and legal theory and practice. Students should note that there are no weekend or residential schools in this subject.

Assessment Field education workbook (2500 words): 40% + Law assignment (2500 words): 30% + Tender document (1000 words): 30%

Prescribed texts

• The current Law handbook relevant to the student's home state
• Lewis J and others Managing human service programs Brooks-Cole, 1991
• Thompson J Social workers and the law Redfern Legal Service, 1989
• Tyson T Working with groups Macmillan, 1989