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Teaching Students About Collaborative Approaches to Organizational Change.
Teaching Students About Collaborative Approaches to Organizational Change.
- Source :
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Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work . Fall99, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p315-328. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- The article explores the implications of teaching students about the application of collaborative practices in organizational changes. Although students in social work foundation courses learn about the application of strengths perspectives with clients , advanced students in administration and planning develop skills in being linear, rational, and reductionistic in organizational life. Traditional models of planned change have been based on rational, positivistic approaches and are taught in various fields. The coming millennium demands recognition of the diverse workforce in American organizations. This diversity is complicated by the movement to a world economy that necessitates an acknowledgment of different ways of knowing and achieving change. For a viable professional future, social work educators have the responsibility to prepare the next generation of social-change agents to work in organizations that may have different structures and require different conceptualizations of change. A collaborative approach is grounded in interactional processes in which people work together.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 2441933
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099922093671