The quality of services provided by a public welfare agency is directly related to the competency of its staff, which is, in turn, directly related to agency efforts to recruit and retain personnel and to provide for their continuing professional growth, for staff development. The importance of a staff development program in the agency administrative structure and in coordinating staff effort has been increasingly realized. This publication: (1) presents the organizational problems faced by public agency administrators and staff in expounding and administering meaningful programs, (2) underlines principles suggestive of carrying out administrative response more easily and effectively, and (3) applies those principles to staff development program. The publication is divided into two major parts: (1) a section on organization theory, and (2) a section on administrative aspects of staff development. (BP)
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- United States of America
- Sponsor
- Social and Rehabilitation Service (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Table of Contents
- COORDINATING TASK GROUPS 8
- VALUE CONFLICTS 10
- ORGANIZATIONAL 11
- PATTERNS 11
- SHIFT FROM TRAINING ACTIVITIES 17
- TO A TRAINING 17
- PROGRAM CHANGES 20
- Within the staff development program of a public welfare 22
- ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND WORK-FLOW 23
- IMPLICATIONS FOR WORKING 24
- PROGRAMING FOR STAFF DEVELOPMENT 26
- Change occurredand is still occurringin the 26
