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.
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Ralph Brody, PhD, was developing a case book to accompany his best-selling textbook, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations, when he passed away on February 8, 2006. As the book was in draft form, many cases were integrated into the current text with Michael Austin and Tom Packard.
Prior to his death, Dr. Brody was on the faculty of Cleveland State University where he taught social policy and social service administration. He also gave graduate courses on service delivery models at Case Western Reserve University. Previously, he served for fifteen years as the executive director of the Federation for Community Planning, an organization that provides research, planning and advocacy on health and human services. Dr. Brody authored books on case management, the state legislative process, fundraising events, community problem solving, service learning, and macro practice. He also produced documentaries on supervision and drug free zones and chaired the Options Committee, which successfully planned and advocated for additional public funding for services for older persons in the greater Cleveland area. Dr. Brody’s many years as a manager and teacher convinced him that the issues facing those in human service organizations were universal and applied to boards of directors as well as NGOs. He dedicated himself to developing tools to enhance the understanding and skills of those in leadership roles, from Cleveland to India, Spain, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt and Nigeria, His frequent workshops in Kenya led to the translation of his casebook into the Swahili language.
Dr. Brody’s work touched millions, and his contributions will continue to educate, inform and inspire future students and professionals in human services and human services administration.
Prior to his death, Dr. Brody was on the faculty of Cleveland State University where he taught social policy and social service administration. He also gave graduate courses on service delivery models at Case Western Reserve University. Previously, he served for fifteen years as the executive director of the Federation for Community Planning, an organization that provides research, planning and advocacy on health and human services. Dr. Brody authored books on case management, the state legislative process, fundraising events, community problem solving, service learning, and macro practice. He also produced documentaries on supervision and drug free zones and chaired the Options Committee, which successfully planned and advocated for additional public funding for services for older persons in the greater Cleveland area. Dr. Brody’s many years as a manager and teacher convinced him that the issues facing those in human service organizations were universal and applied to boards of directors as well as NGOs. He dedicated himself to developing tools to enhance the understanding and skills of those in leadership roles, from Cleveland to India, Spain, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt and Nigeria, His frequent workshops in Kenya led to the translation of his casebook into the Swahili language.
Dr. Brody’s work touched millions, and his contributions will continue to educate, inform and inspire future students and professionals in human services and human services administration.
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This is my favorite college textbook in the field. I have decided to keep my copy. Very practical application of the science of nonprofit work. Well worth the investment and using as a source.
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This well written and readable text offers all the information I wish I had known before I became a manager of Human Services agencies myself. Now that I am a university teacher in the field, I find this to be the best textbook available for my courses in Human Services Management. Unfortunately, this is probably the last year I will use this text, as it was published in 2005 and is going to be out of date soon. I wish Brody were here to update his book, or that his associates would create a newer edition this year to keep up with the field as laws, regulations and best practices evolve.
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Needed this book for the LSUS Master's Program in Human Services Administration. Got it very quick. Text in MINT & EXCELLENT condition and at a great price! Would've paid alot more at BAM or other vendors. I'll order from amazon again in a heartbeat. Brody is an excellent author and amazon's price and timing was the icing on the cake!
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successful appraisal interviews, logic planning model, federation for community planning, toolkit for social entrepreneurs, human service managers, effective public manager, managing human service organizations, enterprising nonprofits, client pathways, appraisal conference, timeline chart, termination lawsuits, unproductive employee, annual campaign, fundraising consultant, effective managers, job classification system, nonprofit boards, grant makers, macro practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Human Resource Management Made Simple, Third Edition by Alfred York on 4 pages
- Alexander Hamilton by S.G. Brown on page 148, page 192, and page 219
- Management Consulting 1990-91 (Harvard Business School Career Guide Series) by Harvard Business Review on page 75, and Back Matter
- Social Work (Ferguson's Careers in Focus) by Ferguson Publishing on page 57, and Back Matter
- Foundation Grants Index 21st/1993 by Foundation Center on page 327, and page 331
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- The Practice of Research in Social Work by Rafael J. Engel in Front Matter
- Managing Care in Context by Dorothy Atkinson in Back Matter
- Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services) by Ralph Brody in Front Matter
- Case Management Handbook for Clinicians by Rand L. Kannenberg in Back Matter
- Managing Care in Context by Jeanette Henderson in Back Matter
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