A Content Analysis of Mission Statements of Our Top 50 Schools of Social Work

Holosko, Michael J.; Winkel, Munir; Crandall, Catherine A.; Briggs, Harold E.

doi:10.1080/10437797.2015.1012922

Cited by 41 publications

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“…Content analysis is particularly effective with difficult-to-measure or latent constructs (Short et al, 2010) such as leadership, and mission statements are typical units of analysis for this technique (see Alegre et al, 2018; Holosko et al, 2015; Wilkerson & Crystal, 2018 for examples of peer-reviewed papers that use content analysis of mission statements).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transacting Business and Transforming Communities: The Mission Statements of Community Foundations Around the Globe

Sloan

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Analyzing mission statements from 1,420 community foundations, this research aims to determine whether community foundations portray themselves as primarily transactional or transformational in their leadership style. Results indicate that approximately half of the community foundations present themselves as transformational dominant although about a third demonstrate transactional dominance. The well-established leadership categories of transformational and transactional (a) give us a new way to explore community foundations’ roles in their communities, (b) help us better understand the way community foundations perceive themselves and their leadership, and (c) provide a mechanism to assess how community foundations are presenting their missions to their communities. In addition, by examining organizations as the unit of analysis, this research answers long-standing calls in leadership studies to consider levels of analysis beyond the individual.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transacting Business and Transforming Communities: The Mission Statements of Community Foundations Around the Globe

Sloan

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…Change was initiated in 2014-2015 when the graduate social work department's mission statement was amended to be inclusive of human rights and economic and environmental justice. If a mission statement is the foundation for an organization's aspirations (Holosko et al, 2015), then the MSW Program set its intentions on human rights.…”

Section: Graduate Social Work Education Curriculum Redesignmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social Work Education Grounded in Human Rights

Quzack

Picard

Metz

et al. 2021

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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In response to a mandate to advance human rights through social work education, this article focuses on the curricular redesign and program evaluation of one MSW Program. The program's specialization focused on advanced social work practice with individuals, families, and communities grounded in social justice and human rights. A pre-experimental one-group posttest-only program evaluation design was implemented. Multiple assessment instruments were used to measure human rights exposure in social work education, as well as a human rights lens and engagement in social work practice among 93 graduating MSW students from a public university with suburban and urban campus locations. How the program applied a human rights-based approach to social work field education will also be discussed. Findings suggest that a human rights exposure in course work and practicum is related to students' practice lens and engagement. The imperative is now to train social work students to address complex social issues through human rights exposure, engagement, and lens as we prepare for a post-pandemic world. Recommendations are provided to strengthen academic leadership and research in this area and empower students to drive a paradigm shift in the profession.

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“…Interest in the significance and scope of organizational language in schools of social work has emerged, with studies analyzing the overall content of social work program mission statements (Holosko, Winkel, Crandall, & Briggs, 2015) and the social justice content of course syllabi (Hong & Hodge, 2009;Mehrotra, Hudson, & Self, in press) and social work PhD program milestone instructions (Shapiro et al, 2015). However, no existing research has examined social work PhD program manuals.…”

Section: Current Studymentioning

confidence: 99%