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by Armand Lauffer (Author)
Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This highly accessible text takes into account the organizational dynamics that readers are likely to have experienced and provides them with the conceptual tools for reassessing their understanding and considering how to act on their new insights. Renowned scholar Armand Lauffer shows readers how to apply organizational theories to challenges they confront at work, and to uncover other challenges they may not yet be aware of.
Author Biography
Since 1972, Armand Lauffer has authored 20 books and edited 2 anthologies on organizations, community practice, training, graduated education, and management in the human service and nonprofit sectors. In addition to being a series editor for Sage since 1977, his books have been published by a number of firms, among them: John Wiley, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, and the Free Press. He is recipient of numerous professional awards, including ACOSA′s 2001 Career Achievement award. As a professor at the University of Michigan, his various assignments included directorships of the continuing education program in the human services and a dozen of national training programs, chairmanship of the School of Social Work′s curriculum committee and community organization sequence. He has played key planning roles in a number of national and international professional conferences and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals. His current consultation and training activities, most of them overseas, address such issues as organizational learning, culture, trust, governance, renewal, leadership, and resource acquisition in nonprofits and social agencies.
