Product Description: We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students. Ralph Brody, Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations, Fourth Edition Now in its Fourth Edition, Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable creative ideas for achieving managerial success...read more

The purpose of this book is to improve the decision-making process in social work groups. Illustrating the volume with various meeting models - including advisory groups, intergroup and intercultural meetings - John E Tropman examines a number of critical issues facing social workers including family and community violence, health care and homelessness. New to this Second Edition is a discussion of the relationship between meetings and missions, goals, and external and internal forces.

Product Description: Successful Community Leadership and Organization: A Skills Guide for Volunteers and Professionals, 2nd Edition updates John E. Tropman's 1997 edition and adds more detail, including introductory chapters on the idea of community itself...read more

This volume takes a broad view of community organization, viewing it as a rich and diverse field of practice that includes policy analysis and development, program planning, administration, evaluation, and resource development and allocation. The Sixth Edition emphasizes strategic and tactical considerations in community change. It treats social planning and policy initiatives, neighborhood-based citizen and empowerment approaches, and advocacy-oriented social action.

Product Description: A best-seller in its first edition, Making Meetings Work Even Better: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions, Second Edition covers everything you need to know about organizing engaging meetings, including preparing agendas, controlling what happens behind the scenes prior to and after meetings, and managing conflicting values and personalities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Starting where Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism left off, John E. Tropman develops the idea that there is another religious-based ethic permeating society, a Catholic ethic. Where Weber proposed that a Protestant ethic supported the development of capitalism, Tropman argues that there is a Catholic ethic as well, and that it is more caring and community-oriented...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Money isn't everything to today's employees. This book shows companies how to combine traditional compensation with the educational, emotional, and psychological benefits that will attract the best and brightest. It identifies the ten elements--including learning, advancement, emotional rewards, and quality of life--that job seekers rank highest among desired benefits...read more

Product Description: This book is intended to help anyone interested in the development of community with the nuts and bolts of community creation, competence, sustenance, and enhancement. The book begins with an overview of tactics, using a case about the location of a homeless shelter in a college town as the lead example, then considers issues of assessment, option development and decision making, mobilization and planning, evaluation and change, and administration and management...read more

Product Description: What are nonprofit boards supposed to do? This operator's manual for today's nonprofit board of directors details the responsibilities of the board; explains how to articulate the nonprofit's vision and mission; describes processes for evaluating the board chair and directors; explains how to evaluate the board's decision making; and outlines how to improve the dreaded board meeting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Tropman goes beyond the notion of the learning organization to propose the creating organization, an organization which sees that ideas--their initiation, development, and implementation--are the key resources for success in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How are the various methods of social work practice used in the major social problem areas, including work with children and families, corrections, education, the workplace, healthcare, mental care, and the like? This book will answer the questions posed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With this practical how-to manual, readers will learn new techniques and skills to help their community groups work cohesively and successfully. Learn how to manage problems of procedure, process, and people. Highlights *Obstacles to and Guidelines for Working Together in Community Development * Responsibilities of Community Committees * The Chairperson * The Community Facilitator * Conducting Effective Community Group Meetings * Managing Perspectives * Managing Decisions * IndexAlso available:Preserving and Strengthening Small Towns and Rural Communities - ISBN 087101310XOrganizing: A Guide for Grassroots Leaders, Revised Edition - ISBN 0871011972NASW Press NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on years of scholarly research, this book offers a fresh perspective of the Protestant ethic by contrasting it with the newly identified Catholic charity ethic. There are several key features that distinguish the Catholic ethic from its Protestant counterpart, including how each ethic values money and work, family and community, and the individual...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Tropman, John E., Johnson, Harold R., Tropman, Elmer J.

Identifies the four keys to entrepreneurial success, discusses the cases of actual new businesses, and tells how to evaluate progress (view table of contents)

Product Description: John E. Tropman examines older Americans and public policy opinion between 1952 and 1978 in order to see just where elder citizens fit in the overall picture. Differences and similarities to opinions of younger groups are discussed along with the changes that took place from the conservative fifties to the liberal sixties and early seventies and back again to the conservatism of the late seventies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Conflict in Culture analyzes American society's tendency to alternate between seeking permission to drink and imposing controls on drinking. It continues by exploring the underlying values of permission and control, as well as their implications on the history of alcohol attitudes in the United States...read more