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Organizational Change and Development in Human Service Organizations
David Bargal,Hillel Schmid +1 more
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The early stages in the creation of two self-help organizations and the case of a Rape Crisis Center are discussed in this paper, where the authors assess the potential for organizational change and development in human service organizations.Abstract:
Contents Organizational Change and Development in Human Service Organizations: A Prefatory Essay * Assessing Prospects for Organizational Change: The Uses of Force Field Analysis * Planned Change in Voluntary and Government Social Service Agencies * Correlates of Participation in Neighborhood Organizations * The Interorganizational Coordination of Services to Children in State Custody * The Early Stage in the Creation of Two Self-Help Organizations: An Exploratory Study * Organizational and Community Change Through Participatory Action Research * Organizational and Community Transformation: The Case of a Rape Crisis Center * Organization Development in Public Social Services--The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object * Strategic and Structural Change in Human Service Organizations: The Role of the Environment * Toward a Developmental Approach to Program Evaluation * Reference Notes Includedread more
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The Bleak Prospect for Public Child Welfare
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Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled systems
TL;DR: Weick as discussed by the authors argued that the concept of loose coupling incorporates a surprising number of disparate observations about organizations, suggests novel functions, creates stubborn problems for methodologists, and generates intriguing questions for scholars.
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Effects of Procedural and Distributive Justice on Reactions to Pay Raise Decisions
Robert Folger,Mary A. Konovsky +1 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a survey to examine the impact of distributive and procedural justice on the reactions of 217 employees to decisions about pay raises, finding that distributive justice accounted for more unique reactions than procedural justice.
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Organization development and change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors work from a strong theoretical foothold and apply behavioral science knowledge to the development of organizational structures, strategies, and processes, blending theory, concepts and applications in a comprehensive and clear presentation.
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The Role of Procedural and Distributive Justice in Organizational Behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between fairness and organizational outcomes and found that both the procedural and distributive fairness measures were significantly related to measures of job satisfaction, evaluation of supervisor, conflict/harmony, trust in management and turnover intention.
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Human service organizations
TL;DR: The Ubiquity of Human Service Organizations as mentioned in this paper, theoretical approaches to human service organizations 3. Organization-Environment Relations 4. Organization Goals 5. Organizational 6. Technology 7. Structure, Power, and Control 8. Client-Organization Relations 9. Assessment of Organizational Performance 10. Changing Human Service organizations References