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Leadership, teamwork and changing practice
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL WORK
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The pace of change in social services sometimes feels overwhelming. How can teamleaders and team members make the necessary transitions to new and more effective ways of working? The experience of Newcastle Social Services Community Support Team for adolescents and their families illustrates the processes involved in successfully managing change, using the Managing Change Through Innovation approach developed at the National Institute for Social Work.
Rider of the storm
- Author:
- NEATE Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author interviews the new head of NCH Action for Children who has gained a reputation for shrewd management and a willingness to take calculated risks.
Chance favours the prepared mind: leadership, teamwork and mapping change for human resources
- Author:
- BROWN John
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 320p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines an approach to leadership and mapping change that helps to ensure that problems are avoided and targets met. Describes in practical detail the changes in thinking that need to take place to introduce this approach and how it can be used to develop high performance teams that welcome and embrace change proposals.
Gender and power in the supervisory dyad
- Author:
- GRANELLO Darcy Haag
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Supervisor (The), 14(2), 1996, pp.53-67.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Presents an overview of the influence of gender in the supervisory dyad. The dynamics of overall conversational styles between genders, gender-specific influence strategies, leadership styles, and the effects of sexuality and sexual harassment are addressed. Implications are drawn from other fields, and suggestions are made for supervisors to diminish the potential effect of gender
You can improve problem groups
- Authors:
- DONALDSON Mary Ann, CORDES-GREEN Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Addiction Counselling World, 8(43), November 1996, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Addiction Recovery Foundation
Stuck or resistant groups and hostile groups can be a nightmare for therapists and participants. In this article the authors explain how they can happen and how you can get out them.
The feedback revolution
- Author:
- ALIMO-METCALFE Beverly
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 13.6.96, 1996, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Finding out what others think of them is helping managers improve their leadership and serving as a catalyst for organisational transformation. This article reports on '360-degree feedback' which has become popular in the United States.
Renewing public management: an agenda for local governance
- Author:
- CLARKE Michael
- Publisher:
- Pitman
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 172p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at management in the context of recent changes in the way local government is run. Examines political leadership, the changing political management of local government, the need to reflect the plurality of local society and the involvement of other organisations. Goes on to deal with the development of strategy, purpose and direction, and with organisational issues which arise when
New leadership for women and men: building an inclusive organization
- Author:
- SIMMONS Michael
- Publisher:
- Gower
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 191p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Looks at the key attributes of successful leaders today and goes on to focus on the benefits of helping leaders to overcome the negative effects of gender conditioning on the quality of their leadership. The author proposes that leaders must transform their organisation by learning how to manage a turbulent environment, increase productivity and quality, and build an 'inclusive organisation
The RAP model: assessing a framework for leading multiracial groups
- Authors:
- SCHOPLER Janice H., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work with Groups, 19(3/4), 1996, pp.21-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
When people of different races come together in treatment, task, and support groups, race is always a salient factor. The extensive literature related to racially, ethnically, and culturally sensitive group practice promotes awareness and offers guidelines, but there has been no systematic evaluation of how effective these guidelines are in preparing students for multiracial practice with groups. This article evaluates the use of the RAP model, a framework for leading multi-racial groups, for teaching MSW students.
Leading people: issues of local government leadership in Britain and America
- Author:
- ELCOCK Howard
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Studies, 21(4), Winter 1996, pp.546-567.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Local government offers extensive and under-utilised opportunities for the study of comparative government. This article suggests that the exploration of how local authorities determine their policies, as well as managing their resources and responsibilities, can and should be pursued on a cross-national basis, because local authorities have similar problems and develop comparable methods of dealing with them. It draws on work carried out in north-eastern England, including a survey of local authority leaders and chief executive officers there and a series of interviews of mayors and senior local government officials in western New York State in the USA.