Product Description: NOTE: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN: 013382408X.   A whole-person approach to human problems and social change...read more

Product Description: Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services...read more

Product Description: The Handbook of Human Services Management is a substantially revised and updated version of the first edition (The Handbook of Social Welfare Management), published in 2000. Intended for students, teachers and scholars, the book’s central theme is how to manage human service organizations in ways that lead to the provision of high quality, effective services to consumers, a pressing political and ethical imperative in this field...read more

Integrating the various topics that administration comprises in an easy to understand practical style, this new edition retains all the useful information of the first, while updating and adding a number of segments. These include financial management and working with important constituencies. The author has also provided more forms and spreadsheets, and useful web sites for practicing managers.

This Reader includes material relevant to everyone involved in developing new relationships in health and social care. Alongside articles on social care as traditionally conceived, it offers articles from a wide variety of settings, including those in health and education. It brings together classic management texts and material with a management focus, providing a stimulating range of perspectives on the manager's role. In the management of something as complex as care, this must involve:* listening to service users* maintaining professional values* enabling participation* facilitating learning.The Managing Care Reader reflects these imperatives as it focuses in on the experience of being in the front line. In four parts, it looks at how managers experience what they do, their managerial responsibilities, the key professional issues, and the importance of the organisational environment. It offers a rich resource for all those undertaking management courses or moving into frontline management roles in the new world of social care.

What makes the difference between your collaboration's failure or success? Collaboration: What Makes It Work, Second Edition answers this question with an up-to-date and in-depth review of collaboration research. This new edition also includes The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory.

Product Description: The cornerstone of truly effective and responsive human services is quality -- quality that stems from dynamic leadership and a focus on personal outcomes. This forward-thinking book shows how it's done by presenting a leadership model that is person centered, performance driven, and, best of all, achievable...read more

Product Description: This book should be of interest to nurses.