Effectively managing human service organizations

• Main Author: Brody, Ralph (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE Publications 2005
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Series: Sage sourcebooks for the human services series
• Subjects: Human services > Management
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• Physical Description: xiii, 461 pages 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-445) and index
• ISBN: 9781412904209; 141290420X

Now in its Third Edition, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable advice for achieving managerial success. Ralph Brody dissects and diagnoses common workplace dilemmas, arming practicing managers with the skills to implement positive changes in their organizations. While retaining much of the valuable information from the previous editions, the Third Edition adds up-to-date information and ideas to chapters on developing leadership, planning strategically, solving organizational problems, addressing challenging employee situations, monitoring financial statements, improving internal and external communications, and obtaining funding from private foundations. Easy to read, the book contains hundreds of real-life examples and specific guidance in developing skills necessary to manage large and small organizations.