This is a skill-building course designed for practicing social workers. The content focus includes concepts, perspectives, processes and tools for an effective management of different organizations in the context of real world situation. Emphasis will be given on the management of social development agency regardless whether it is private or public. However, occasionally, the management of people’s organizations and business organizations will also be tackled to give the social work students an appreciation of the context of these organizational forms and to inculcate the lesson that management is a generic skill that can be used not only by for-profit organizations but also by non-profit organizations.
Different teaching methods will be used in class sessions, but the case study method will be emphasized to put the student on the scene of the action by describing and analyzing an agency’s situation at some point in time and come up with a feasible course of action to address the management issue or problem at hand. The aim is really to train social work masteral students to become beginning level versatile managers that can think and act under pressure and function under various organizational contexts.
- Teacher: rainier almazan