Studies
Readings
Use your Social Work Macro Practice textbook to read the following:
Chapter 7, “Understanding Organizations,” pages 188–225.
Chapter 8, “Assessing Human Service Organizations,” pages 226–266.
Use your Communication Between Cultures textbook to read the following:
Chapter 7, “Culture and Identity: Situating the Individual,” pages 243–264.
Suggested Readings
You are encouraged to use the Capella library to read the following suggested articles:
Malatesta, D., & Smith, C. R. (2014). Lessons from resource dependence theory for contemporary public and nonprofit management. Public Administration Review, 74(1), 14‒25.
Pittz, T. G., & Adler, T. (2016). An exemplar of open strategy: Decision-making within multi-sector collaborations. Management Decision, 54(7), 1595‒1614.
Salignac, F., Wilcox, T., Marjolin, A., & Adams, S. (2018). Understanding collective impact in Australia: A new approach to interorganizational collaboration. Australian Journal of Management, 43(1), 91‒110.
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Examine the applicability of organizational theories to various contexts, problems, and organizations.
Identify factors that foster and challenge trust in a macro environment.
Demonstrate awareness of the best communication practices in various cultures and contexts.
Analyze each collaboration, negotiation, and mediation need between organizations.
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Peer review is not about judging each other’s work, but helping each other
out. It is important for the peer feedback space to be safe and judgement-free in order for everyone to truly benefit from the feedback.
For your initial discussion, post the link to your presentation for the Unit 3 Understanding Community and Organizational Problems assignment.