Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders and Administrators: Evaluating a Course in Social Work Management

Wilson, Steve; Lau, Beatrice Chu

doi:10.1080/03643107.2011.575347

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“…In the same issue, Sternberg (2007) provides a listing of validated models of leadership, including Attributes, Behavioral Theories, and Contingency models, and Transformational and Situational approaches. Many of these, including Theory X-Theory Y, Behavioral, Situational Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Learning Organizations, are the leadership theories most commonly applied in social work settings (Wilson & Lau, 2011).…”

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Leadership in a Changing Environment: A Leadership Model for Child Welfare

Bernotavicz

McDaniel

Brittain

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Administration in Social Work

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Section: Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concepts of leadership and management are interdependent, overlapping, complementary, and vital to organizational success, and the terms should be used interchangeably (Wilson & Lau, 2011).…”

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Leadership in a Changing Environment: A Leadership Model for Child Welfare

Bernotavicz

McDaniel

Brittain

et al. 2013

Administration in Social Work

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“…Fortunately, in response to more recent social, cultural, political, and economic forces, leadership within the social work profession has begun to take on greater importance (Wilson & Lau, 2011). Over the past decade various studies have suggested competencies required for effective social work leadership (Wilson & Lau;Holosko, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Principled Leadership Development Model for Aspiring Social Work Managers and Administrators: Development and Application

Bliss

Pecukonis

Snyder-Vogel

2014

Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership & Govern

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There is an emerging trend in social work administration where many direct practice-oriented social work students get promoted after their graduation to supervisory or managerial positions, yet haven't mastered macro-level competencies during their social work education. This places these recent graduates in the untenable position of stepping into professional roles they didn't envision and might not be prepared for. This may inhibit their advancement in administrative hierarchies because they do not have the leadership/managerial qualifications that those from other professions have by virtue of their educational and practice experiences. The Principled Leadership Development Model addresses this gap by providing educators and administrators a generic template that can be used to create customized leadership development initiatives for social workers in their professional careers. The six integrated components of the model are discussed. A case example of the application of the model in creating a leadership development academy for post-graduate social workers in maternal and child health settings is presented.

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“…For example, course offerings may perpetuate the idea that all students need micro skills in order to be social workers, while macro skills may only be important to a Macro-Related Skills among Recent Graduates 7 subset of students. Several studies have documented that social work curricula primarily focuses on skills needed to obtain clinical licensure to the detriment of providing content on community organizing (Fisher & Corciullo, 2011), social action and political advocacy (Rothman, 2013), and administration and management content (Wilson & Lau, 2011). The lack of emphasis on the importance of macro oriented skills and methods may perpetuate "anti-management sentiments" once MSW graduates enter the workforce (Tolleson- Knee & Folsom, 2012, p. 393).…”

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“…Without adequate macro content, the development of expertise to fulfill management, community organizing, and policy analysis roles will cease to exist (Perlmutter, 2006;Schwartz & Dattalo, 1990; Weiss et al., 2004;Wilson & Lau, 2011). Social workers trained primarily in direct practice have been found to be less effective in administrative positions given that clinical skills do not directly translate into effective management skills Perlmutter, 2006;Wilson & Lau, 2011). Related, by not providing enough macro training to students, social workers may miss out on jobs that end up going to graduates from other fields including business and public administration (Nessoff, 2007).…”

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Debunking macro myths: findings from recent graduates about jobs, salaries, and skills

Zerden

Sheely

Despard

2016

Social Work Education

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Research suggests that interest in macro social work practice is declining, a trend that has been well documented in the United States. Studies find that social work educators and practitioners may foster beliefs among MSW students that discredit macro practice and associated skills while asserting macro graduates are likely to face poorer employment prospects and lower salaries than micro counterparts as they start their careers. This study builds on and extends this literature by examining 27 skills in their current job using a 5-point Likert-type scale among the early career trajectory of MSW alumni (N=182) who graduated between 2008--2012 from a public social work institution in the southeastern United States. The skills included in the survey, as well as decisions about how to group them into scales, were made based on theoretical links between the skills by macro faculty members. Findings highlight the use of macro practice skills regardless of concentration focus, no differences in salary, or the time it takes to find employment between micro and macro alumni. Implications for social work education are discussed.keywords: macro practice, social work education USA, MSW curriculum, MSW career development, Macro-Related Skills among Recent Graduates 2The focus on changing environmental factors, which create and perpetuate social and economic inequities, has been a defining feature of social work since Jane Addams started the Settlement House movement (Johnson, 2004). However, throughout the history of the profession and still today, specifically in social work education in North America, a tension remains regarding the relative importance for the profession of micro level practice -direct practice with individuals, groups, and families -and macro level practice -community organizing, planning, administration and policy practice (McNutt, 1995; Hill, Ferguson, & Erickson, 2010; Haynes, 1998;Rothman & Mizrahi, 2014;Specht & Courtney, 1995;). While broad in definition, globally and in the United States, macro social work practice has had a specific tradition connected to grassroots activism, community organizing, and efforts towards political reform (Rothman, 2013). Recently, as budgets and service provision are decided, the role of administration and management has become an important function of social workers in order to determine when, how, to whom, and by who services are allocated (NASW, 2013). This paper aims to determine what are the career experiences (type of job obtained, time to find job, salary) of recent MSW graduates? Within this purpose, we attempt to discern if these career experiences vary among graduates depending on their concentration as students? In this context, concentration is the word used to differentiate between areas of study or focus. In the United States, this distinction is commonly made between direct practice and macro social work. Secondly, the paper explores what macro-related skills are most used by recent MSW graduates. We hypothesize that the time spent on each sk...

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Preparing Tomorrow's Leaders and Administrators: Evaluating a Course in Social Work Management

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Leadership in a Changing Environment: A Leadership Model for Child Welfare

Leadership in a Changing Environment: A Leadership Model for Child Welfare

Principled Leadership Development Model for Aspiring Social Work Managers and Administrators: Development and Application

Debunking macro myths: findings from recent graduates about jobs, salaries, and skills

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