human service organization
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Description/Focus: |
Assessment Two - Essay |
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Value: |
60% of the total grade |
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Due Date: |
21 May 2018 |
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Length: |
2500 words excluding referencesAsdetails |
Assignment details:
Essay 2500 words 60%
Due June 1st 2018 (midnight)
Choose a Human Service Organisation (From Australia) that will be the focus of this essay. You can choose an organisation in which you are professionally involved for which you are aware and which allows you access to relevant information via their website. You need to provide an overview of the organisation and its organisational structure and culture using the following points below as your focus for analysis:
1. To what extent is managerialism evident within this organisation?
2. Which organisational theories can assist your understanding of the tensions between a professional in your area of practice and managers within that organisation?
3. How is leadership exercised in this organisation?
4. How might a worker in your profession within this organisation engage in leadership roles?
5. Reflect on what may be some of the ethical tensions you as a worker in your discipline area may encounter when working in this organisation
Marking criteria:
Each criteria has equal weighting
1. Review of managerialism within the organisation
2. Application of organisational theory to tensions between professional team members and managers within the organisation
3. Critical analysis of leadership within the organisation
4. Evidence of understanding of leadership role for a professional in your area of practice within the organisation
5. Evaluation of ethical tensions inherent in that professional role in the organisation
6. Academic integrity: expression, grammar and referencing
What are the organisational theories to consider for your final essay?
Organisational theoretical perspectives- pretty straight forward see below.
There is literature that you could draw on some of the theoretical perspectives these are
1) The theory of bureacracy
2) Scientific management
3) Human relations
4) Systems and ecological perspectives
5)Market perspectives
6)Decision perspectives
7)Neo-Marxian Perspectives
8)Political economy perspectives
9) Feminist perspectives
10)Aboriginal Perspectives