Social Welfare Administration Review PDF

Dynamics of an Agency Administration - Process - Programs Social welfare agency Administration - Do services to meet the unmet - Has projects and implications focused on the needs of the people Administrator - A person leading the agency or administration - A person who takes ris...

Dynamics of an Agency Administration - Process - Programs Social welfare agency Administration - Do services to meet the unmet - Has projects and implications focused on the needs of the people Administrator - A person leading the agency or administration - A person who takes risks to manage - A person who requires subordinates We manage our subordinates through supervision to see if they're doing their assigned task and we manage to see if the programs and services transpired are effective and aligned with the needs of the people. Assignment 1. Search the definition of [administration] and [social welfare administration] 2. Study the history of social welfare administration \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **Administration** 1. **Public administration and management in the Philippines** - Administration is like a living organism it submits itself irrevocably to reconstruct and develop the progressive development in administration is made possible through the continuous exchange of **[views]** and **[ideas]**. - Administration involves **[skills]**, [**techniques**,] and **[principles]** in the use of **[resources of men]**, **[money]**, **[machines]**, and **[methods]** this art of getting things done transpires when an organization promotes its economic well-being by providing economic protection and security Leonard white -- administration is embracing all kinds of efforts Prfifner and Presthus -- relate administration as the art of coordination to achieve further or to meet certain ends with the use of human material and resources. - Includes **[planning]**, **[command]**, **[coordination,]** and **[control]**, concerned with all patterns of behavior to achieve a common goal. It is a comprehensive work to **[guide]**, **[direct]**, and **[integrate associated human efforts]** brought to bear on some specific objectives 2. administration and supervision in social work - Administration is described by Herman Stein as a concept and the process of defining and attaining objectives through a system of coordination and cooperative efforts - Administration is a continuous process that leads to organizational growth and development. It is a phenomenon that transpires in **[schools]**, **[businesses]**, **[governments]**, **[labor unions]**, **[firms]**, **[hospitals]**, and in any organized goal-seeking growth in a person **Social work administration** 1. **Administration and supervision in social work** - Keystone for maximizing the effectiveness of social work programs in the solution of social problems and the betterment of social conditions for all people - Social work administration provides a framework for social work practices that relates it to other agency functions, the quality of social work practices is greatly influenced by social work administration. Administration process -- Process of leading an agency different from the problem implementation - Is the lifeblood of any organization It is the process by which decisions are made, tasks are assigned and completed, information is gathered and disseminated, and the resources are allocated. In short, it is the process by which an organization gets things done there are many different administration models, but all share a common goal: ensuring the administration runs smoothly and efficiently - Office tasks that are required to keep the company getting along with each other. This includes **[human resources]**, **[marketing]**, and **[accounting]**. Anything that entails managing information that supports a business is an administration process - It serves as a tool to ameliorate the efficiency and effectiveness within the organization. An effective administration process can help an organization achieve its goals by streamlining its operations and improving communication within the administration. Administration - Focuses on establishing policies, guidelines, - and procedures to ensure the smooth operation and organization **3 ways to ensure a smooth administration** 1. Procedures 2. Methods 3. Ways Management - Broader term that encompasses various functions such as **[planning]**, **[organizing]**, **[leading]**, **[staffing]**, and **[coordinating]** - Plans of the administration are assigned to the management to follow, it transpires something by materializing something out of nothing Social work administration - Actions of a social worker and follows statistically the rules and regulations of the social welfare agency. Social welfare administration - Guided by the principles of social work and followed based on an understanding of ethics, values, and ethical standards are guided by the principles, this includes programs and services Aug 15 History of social welfare administration- based on illustration in the orange book **~xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~** Aug 22 Social work administration - Huge place for social workers due to vast administers to manage **People to manage** 1. Staff 2. Stakeholders/partners 3. Target clients All interventions that are intended to enhance or maintain the social functioning of human beings may be defined as social welfare -- Ralp Dolgolf Social interventions enhance the people\'s well-being. Thus, it is a **[social welfare]** Social welfare - Social interventions -- tao - Collective interventions -- programs - Depends sa organization and policies kung ang target ba ay beneficiaries Social welfare is centered on 2 basic concepts 1. Social problem - programs and services address social problems like poverty, crimes, nutrition, and making collective interventions to address social problems 2. Ways in which the Society responds to its problem (Related to policy, legislation, procedure, etc.). Welfare refers to the range of services that are provided to protect people in several conditions, including childhood, sickness, and old age. Social interventions collective interventions depend on social problems, policies, and legislation and vice versa 1. Ordinances 2. Resolution 3. Laws - Applies only if there is Brgy ordinances Example: curfew ordinances - Failure to adhere will be punished in the form of cash and community services. Social welfare administration - Refers to a **[process of]** **[applying professional competence]** to implement a certain program of social welfare through social agencies in fulfillment of objects, policies, and agencies Process of applying professional competence 1. Finished the study of social work 2. F1 and f2 done = 1,000 hours 3. Board exam 4. Licensed social worker - To implement programs and services through a **[social welfare agency]** Our baseline is **[helping people through agencies]**. Hence, it is a **[social welfare administration ]** **Why administration is crucial** - Organized human activities - Considered as a **[process]**, **[method]**, and **[set of people working towards a common goal]** and **[objectives]** in an organization - Every organization requires administration to function smoothly, effectively, and efficiently -- kung walang administrasyon magulo ang pamamalakad - Crucial to orchestrate the myriad activities of an organization - Derived from the Latin word "**[ad]**" and "**[ministrete]**" looking after people -- administration - Process of defining and attaining systematic process - Phenomenon transpiring in **[schools]**, **[businesses]**, **[governments]**, **[labor unions]**, **[firms]**, **[hospitals]** **Why Social welfare administration is crucial** - Has objectives, policies, and established designed to ameliorate the lives of people by helping them meet their unmet needs. - Creating and maintaining an organization making plans and carrying them out - Evaluate the result -- it sees through the program and services if the programs and services that are being implemented are effective and align with the people's needs. - Method of social work concerned with the provision of distribution of resources with the primary purpose of enabling certain types of people, individuals or groups, and communities to meet their needs and fulfill potential Aug 27 History of Social Welfare Administration - Crucial phenomena of social welfare administration - Speaking of the social welfare and development department, the primary art of the government is the delivery of social welfare programs in the country 1915 -- The name of the Social welfare administration was the **[Public Welfare Board]** it coordinates all entities like organizations delivery of social services and it regulates the act ivies in the country - 1950 -- administration of social welfare started 1921- The Public Welfare Board was replaced by the **[Bureau of Public Welfare ]** 1939 -- Commonwealth Act 439 **[Manuel L. Quezon]'**s reign created the **[Department of Health and Public Welfare ]** 1947 -- The **[Bureau of Public Welfare]** becomes part of the **[Department of Health and Public Welfare]** -- they become one - Before the people's focus was health Bureau of Public Welfare -- coordinates entities and also manages child caring institutions and provisions of child welfare services - same function ng Department of Health and Public Welfare that's why they've merged In the same year, **[Manuel A. Roxas]** created the **[Social Welfare Commission (SWC)]** by Abolishing Bureau of Public Welfare under the office of the president 1948 -- President **[Elpidio Quirino y Rivera]** created the **[President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration]** (PACSA) to address the economic concerns of the Filipinos to counteract social unrest - Walang social/ economic development kaya nilikha ang PACSA to address social and economic problems to lessen social unrest. 1951- The Social Welfare Commission (SWC) and President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration (PACSA) give birth to the **[Social Welfare Administratio]**n -- Beginning an Integrated public welfare program [SWC] and [PACSA] have similar goals and focus that's why they merged and gave birth to **[SWA]** 1968 -- **[R.A 5416]** known as the Social Welfare Act was created to make Social Welfare Administration a department. -- **[Department of Social Welfare]** - [Health] and [education] is a [department that is both created under the law] - Under Social Work Administration and the Department in the Executive Branch. 1976 -- 1968 The Department of Social Welfare was created because the Social Welfare Administration was established under **[P.D No. 994]** by **[President Ferdinand Marcos]** for accurate social identity, keeping productivity and development thrust 1978- From the Department of Social- Services and Development (DSSD) to the Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) in charge in a form of Government, from presidential-parliamentary. - 1970s ay martial law kaya ang P.D ay nag change to Parliamentary that's why Ministry of Social- Services and Development existed 1987 -- After the people power revolution under **[Cory Aquino]**'s Reign Ministry of Social Services and Development was changed to the **[Department of Social Welfare Development]** under Executive Order 123 1991 -- Passage of **[R.A 7160/ Government Code 1991]** affected the Devolution of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) basic services to the governmental unit 1998- **Joseph Estrada [Executive order no. 15 ]**redirecting the "functions of operations of the Department of Social Welfare and Development "fixed the functions of DSWD redirecting functions and operations due to the implementation of the **[local government code 1991]** 2003- Executive Order No. 221 -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo fixed the rules and functions of the DSWD, pinaltan ang Executive no. 15 ng Executive 221 Presidential Decree Vs Executive order Vs BILL **Presidential Decree** **Executive Order** **Bill** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An official order or decision especially one made by the ruler of a country A signed, written, and published directive from the mayor that manages operations of the city government A formal statement of a planned new law that is discussed by a government or legislature before being voted on Vested Interest -- Creating policies incontrast of the people's needs Repealing laws -- changing of law \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Aug 29 Social system - Conceptually, a social system is a whole with each part bearing a dynamic relation to every other part and all are interdependent. - When applied in social work administration. It refers to the concept of agency purpose and interrelationship of different units as a subsystem of the organization 1. **Open system** -- affecting by external environment 2. **Closed system** -- not affected by external environment, this may be applied in services and programs that are remain in constant despite the changes in the socio-economic and/or political situation. Note -- social system is permeable to other system and is affected by them. Thus, the social system is influenced by its external environment Basic components of social systems 1. Input - Human resource, work method, or set of beliefs from the environment. They find a way of relation to each other within the system, slight change will change the whole system - **[Human resources]**, **[financial resources]** and **[physical resources]** -- 3 components 2. Output - represents what the system is doing in relation to its goals 3. Throughput -- refers to the conversation process of inputs to outputs +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ | Input | Throughput | Output | +=======================+=======================+=======================+ | Staff | Management | Programs and Services | | | | | | Budget | | | | | | | | Building | | | +-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ Crucial for Management - Human resources - Financial resources - Physical resources -- workplace Multiple systems -- apply to the many levels of systems and subsystems. According to William Link, the study of a multiple system moves from a small view. A program undertaken by a social agency could be viewed as a system by itself or a subsystem in relation to various agency programs in the community. Example of multiple systems: 1. Social administration 2. Social welfare administration 3. Social work administration continuum Social Equilibrium -- stability is the tendency of an organization (system) to maintain a uniform and beneficial stability within and between its parts. The management function organization provides mechanisms for system equilibrium not only within the system but also among the subsystem Example: staffs Morale is high and performance is satisfactory Levels of Organization 1. Policy level 2. Administrative or executive level 3. Supervisory level 4. Direct service level \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Sept 5 REVIEW ITES NI MA'AM Administration -- crucial area in the organized human activity - Process, method, set of relationships between or among people working towards a common goal or objectives. - Continuous process leads organization and growth - Focuses on establishing polices and guideline "Process or defining and attaining the objectives of the organization through a system of coordination and cooperative effort" -- Herman Stain **Characteristics of administration** - [Human enterprise] that involves activity of people in the organization - [Continuous], [dynamic process] of a common purpose or goal that is pursued through uninterrupted, continuing interactive activity between and among people in vertical and horizontal positions in an organization - The [resources of people] and [materials are harnessed] and [coordinated] to achieve organizational goals leadership is implicit in administration We harness people through **[benefits]**, **[compensation]**, monitoring if their effective and productive through trainings and seminars We harness materials by **[maintenance]** **Elements of administration** 1. Organization 2. Management **Organization**- is the setting-up framework or structure of the different units of the system to carry out or perform distinct tasks for the attainment of the goals in administration **Transpires when** -Persons [**communicate with** **each othe**]**r** and are **[willing to contribute action]** to **[accomplish a common goal]** Management - The activity that allocates and utilizes resources to achieve the goals of the organization - The **[scientific]** utilization of **[manpower]**, **[money]**, **[machines]**, **[materials]**, **[methods]**, **[time]**, **[space]** and other resources for the attainment of the organization goals. It is **[scientific]** because we don't hire people that does not have the skills that we need in achieving our goal, we hire people who are experts and has the skill that we need. **[Utilization of Man power]** -- transparency wag pro inflow/outflow utilize your people and resources or else the management will be in deficit 3 concepts of Human Services Organization 1. Social administration 2. Social welfare administration 3. Social work administration - Adapting on their environment to align their services with the people's need through management by implementing new programs and services Social welfare administration - Refers more to the administrative process in the social welfare agency, the formulation of its polices and plans, and their implementation into programs and services for specific client groups. - Also called social agency administration "The major objective of social welfare administration is the enhancement of social functioning"- Edward Schwartz "Focuses on the polices, planning and administration of goods and services in relation to the political, social and economic institutions and to the determinants of the distribution of national resources that the welfare needs"- Archie Hanlan Social work administration - A social work method concerned with providing and distributing societal resources to enable people to meet their needs and fulfill their potential towards empowering their lives. - A secondary method in social work, based upon the principles and techniques of administration in general but addressed to the specific social work tasks of defining and solving human problems and satisfying human needs **Characteristics of Social Work Administration** - use of the principles and techniques of administration in general - use of philosophy, aims, and functions of social work - working on people based on knowledge and understanding of human behavior, human relations, and human organizations - methods encompassing not only services provided by the agency but also the administrative process and staff relations - ethics plays a significant role **Activities taken in social work administration (Harleigh Trecker)** 1. study and analyze community 2. determine agency purpose for basic clientele selection 3. provide financial resources, budgeting, and accounting 4. develop agency policies, programs, and procedures for the implementation of agency purposes 5. select and work with agency leadership, professional and nonprofessional staff, boards, committees, and service volunteers 6. provide and maintain physical plant, equipment supply 7. develop a plan, establish and maintain effective community relations, and interpret the program 8. keep complete and accurate records of agency operations and make regular reports 9. plan and research regularly 10. continuously conduct regular evaluations of program personnel **Importance of Social Work Administration** 1. Keystone for maximizing the effectiveness of social work programs in the solution of social problems and in the betterment of social conditions for all people 2. Provides a framework for social work practice that relates it to other agency functions **Aspects of Social Work Administration** - **Functions** - **Structure** - **Process** Functions - The means by which identified social needs are dealt with by appropriate social services whether under public or private auspices - The societal action for improved or new services needed by specific groups of the community as a whole Structure - Studying it in relation to the organization as an element of administration - Knowing that the social welfare agency represents the organizational structure in societal work administration Process -- has important dimension: 1. **Central dimension** - the task of work assignment within the agency structure - distribution of responsibility 2. **Psychological dimension** - People release their feelings and energies, when properly harnessed by administration constitute the human resources in achieving agency goals