FSS:SPRn8803 Organization and Culture - Course Information
SPRn8803 Organization and Culture of Social Services
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ladislav Otava, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Sat 17. 4. 9:00–14:40 exP21, Sat 22. 5. 15:00–18:40 exP21
- Prerequisites
- The subject is obligatory part of studying specializations in "universal social work" and "social work micro - advisory work". Students of the other specializations are allowed to enroll the subject as semi-facultative.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Communal Social Work)
- Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Case Social Work)
- Social Work Macro - Innovations in Organisations (programme FSS, N-SPR) (2)
- Social Work Macro - Community Service Programmes (programme FSS, N-SPR)
- Social Work Micro – Counselling (programme FSS, N-SPR) (2)
- Social Work Universal (programme FSS, N-SPR) (2)
- Course objectives
- Students become known with the core concepts and theories on understanding the interrelation between dilemmas of social work withz clients and the approach of social workers to their clients.
- Learning outcomes
- On successful completion of the course student should be able to interpret approaches to clients in terms of social contsructs implied by managing dilemmas of social work with clinets.
- Syllabus
- The course is devoted to the following topics and issues: 1. Basic concepts: „social work services“, „organization“ a „culture“, „dilemmas of the work with clients “, „Ways of coping with dilemmas“ and „approach to clients“ as a an element of organizational culture.
- 2. Managing uncertain working conditions (by Lipsky).
- 3. „Double bound”, “participant” and “observer” perspective (by Laan).
- 4. The power of managers and professionals in organization (by Howe).
- 5. “Collective unconsciousness” (by Tavistock Institute of Human Relations).
- 6. „Keeping frames” and the “learning organization theory“ (by Argyris and Redmond)
- 7. Research on the approach to clients in terms of organizational culture.
- Literature
- required literature
- ARGYRIS, CH., SCHÖN, D.A. Organizational Learning II. Theory, Metod, and Praktice. Addison-Wesley, Reading – Massachusetts tec. 1996.
- MUSIL, Libor. Coping with Dilemmas. Working Conditions and Interactions of Social Workeres with their Clients. Stassfurt: ISIS, 2006, 130 pp. Comparative Social Work Science Vol. 6. ISBN 80-7326-090-5. info
- NEČASOVÁ, Mirka and Libor MUSIL. PRACOVNÍ PODMÍNKY A DILEMATA POMÁHAJÍCÍCH PRACOVNÍKŮ (WORKING CONDITIONS AND DILEMMAS OF WORKERS IN HELPING PROFESSIONS). Sociální práce|Sociálna práca. Brno: ASVSP, 2006, vol. 2006, No 3, p. 57 - 71, 14 pp. ISSN 1213-6204. info
- MUSIL, Libor. "Ráda bych Vám pomohla, ale ..." Dilemata práce s klienty v organizacích. ("I would like to help you, but ..." Dilemmas of work with clients in organisations.). Brno: Marek Zeman, 2004, 243 pp. ISBN 80-903070-1-9. info
- LAAN, Geert van der. Otázky legitimace sociální práce :(pomoc není zboží). Translated by Eva Kušová. Vyd. 1. Boskovice: Albert, 1998, 260 s. ISBN 80-85834-41-3. info
- LIPSKY, Michael. Street-level bureaucracy :dilemmas of the individual in public services. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1980, xviii, 244. ISBN 0-87154-526-8. info
- recommended literature
- REDMOND, B.: Reflecting on Practice: Exploring Individual and Organizational Learning through a Reflective Teaching Model. In: Gould, N., Baldwin, M. (eds.), Social Work, Critical Reflection and the Learning Organization, Ashgate, Aldershot 2004.
- GEERTZ, Clifford. Interpretace kultur :vybrané eseje. Translated by Hana Červinková - Václav Hubinger - Hedvika Humlíčková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2000, 565 s. ISBN 80-85850-89-3. info
- The unconscious at work : individual and organizational stress in the human services. Edited by Anton Obholzer - Vega Zagier Roberts. 1st pub. Hove: Brunner-Routledge, 1994, xviii, 224. ISBN 0415102065. info
- MARTIN, Joanne. Cultures in organizations : three perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, xi, 228 s. ISBN 0-19-507163-8. info
- GOFFMAN, Erving. Asylums :essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. 1st pub. London: Penguin Books, 1991, 336 s. ISBN 0-14-013739-4. info
- HOWE, David. Social workers and their practice in welfare bureaucracies. Aldershot: Gower, 1986, vi, 174 s. ISBN 0-566-05091-9. info
- Teaching methods
- Specific themes are presented in a form of professional lectures. Students discuss individual themes and findings from the literature in the seminars. During the curse students create paper devoted to the selected street-level bureaucrats´ dilemma in any public and social policy organisation and explain reasons of workers´ chosen method of its solution. Participation on lectures and seminars, pass an assay and proof likewise the homework are the preconditions for the course graduation.
- Assessment methods
- The course consists in lectures, writing and essay and collective consultations concerning essays. The course is completed by exam which consists in passing test and elaborating essay on the question: „How used to social workers in selected organization cope with their selected dilemma and what is the meaning of the way of coping in their eyes?”
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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