Strategic Supervision: A Brief Guide for Managing Social Service Organizations [Paperback]

Offering social service agency leaders the necessary skills for
day-to-day supervision practice

This guide presents readers with a practical overview to the most important aspects of supervisory leadership and personnel management within the social work environment. Strategic Supervision serves as a primer for new or soon-to-be supervisors on the types of knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for effective supervisory practice. It also offers more seasoned practitioners a concise compendium of checklists and tools that can be utilized selectively.

Key Features

• Concrete examples of how excellent supervisors problem-solve, lead teams, and support multicultural and other forms of diverse staffing
• Practical strategies for working with employees that have performance difficulties
• Management tools specifically tailored to the application of Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and other nondiscriminatory practices in hiring and promotion activities

A brief and practical guide to the most important aspects of supervisory leadership and personnel management.This is a good textbook, and I'm tempted to suggest it as optional reading. I have temporarily decided to adopt Human Service Organizations by Kettner (Allyn and Bacon)--though I am eagerly awaiting Sage's upcoming edition from Brody--to be published in February. Simple to use and very user friendly. Provided specific tools for students to use in their work.Duplicated material in another, more comprehen