This article analyzes the shortcomings affecting social services in Spain and highlights how the control function contributes to transparency and efficiency, with the consequent improvement of citizens’ confidence. The results from a survey are presented, reflecting the opinions of the statutory auditors in Spain as to these matters.

Considerable research has asked what job skills are needed for human services administrators and which degree is the “best” one to acquire those skills. This study extends previous research by adding another stakeholder group, Board Chairs, in a mixed methods study. Implications are presented for policy and practice.

This article reviews the experience of an interorganizational collaboration among five small NGOs coworking as a consortium in Hong Kong. While earlier discussions identified the success factors of collaboration, this article extends the discussion on boundary-spanning processes of managing those complex and delicate inter-personal and organizational relationships.

Workforce expansions in terms of dispersed teams have enabled social service organizations to meet objectives anywhere. This article critically analyzes the emerging literature on dispersed teams, the relevance of a transformational leadership style, and resulting implications for future research.

This qualitative study explored the perspectives of 16 administrators from 11 mental health agencies serving children, youth, and families on what affects the successful implementation and sustained use of evidence-based interventions. Both positive and negative factors impacting sustainability are identified and implications for practice are presented.

The author founded a nonprofit bakery that provided employment services for people with disabilities—a social enterprise. This description of the steps in the development of a social enterprise as a social worker is critical, because the current economy demands that social workers have knowledge of social enterprises.

This is a comprehensive leadership text for 21st century leadership practice contexts. The author is an experienced leadership scholar and is currently a professor of leadership studies at the Univ...

As an instructor of administration for social work students, I am always eager to review new materials for possible inclusion in my classes. At my institution we tend to rely on the same few texts ...

My bookshelf has become crowded in recent months with review copies of new general management textbooks for the human services. Given the fragile state of the human service industry, it seems many ...