...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Name School Class Date Instructor Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Violence toward animals and children are some of the most horrific crimes one can commit. Animals and children are defenseless when it comes to protecting themselves against a person who abuses. The American Humane Association is one of the Nation’s leading advocates for children and animals. This organization is the only national organization advocating for both animals and children. Lewis, Packard, and Lewis (2007), state “Management in human service settings is a highly challenging task, primarily because the factors that differentiate nonprofit organizations from profitmaking firms are the same ones that tend to make management difficult” (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, (2007a), p. 22). The American Humane Association demonstrates effective planning that meet the organizations vision and mission. The multicultural organization includes key stakeholders, the community, and staff in all aspects of building a strong environment with credible characteristics. Vision and Mission A vision and mission statement for an organization should articulate in essence where the organization believes its purpose and place is in the world. Since 1887, The American Humane Association has provided leadership in “developing policies, legislation, curricula and training programs - and taking actions...
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...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Latischa Harris BSHS 462 April 8, 2012 Jane Flournoy Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Kids Resource Network was founded in 1985, moving into El Paso County, Colorado in 1992. In 2001, Kids Resource Network (KRNCS) broke into two separate offices making KRNCS its own child placement agency. KRNCS works with many diverse children and families, who all have different and special needs. Working with children from ages 0-18 years of age and sometimes young adults up to the age of 21 should there be special circumstances. KRNCS works to reunify children in a safe and stable family environment. Should a child be unable to return to their biological family, KRNCS helps to locate and finalize a permanent placement. In addition to foster/adoptive success, the site also provides a wide variety of community services such as: CFI/mediation, therapy (individual, family, couples), home studies, contractual adoptive services inner and out of state, family preservation, supervised parenting time, classes such as CPR, first aid, and parenting classes, parent child interactional, and life skills. Rashida Gordon is a case worker for the Kids Resource Network of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rashida is a therapist, who uses client centered therapy as her approach. She believes in order to assist in behavioral changes; one must have emphasis in that one person to focus. KRNCS main...
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...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization The Peace Corps is a federally funded national organization that helps people in mostly third world countries with education, health, nutrition, youth development, and agricultural needs by means of volunteers (“Peace Corps”, 2012). The following will go into detail about this organizations vision, how it is staffed, who the stakeholders are, public relations, diversity, and environmental trends of the Peace Corps. Vision and Mission The vision and mission statement of the Peace Corps is very clear and simple. According to “Peace Corps” (2008), “The Peace Corps' mission has three simple goals: 1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. 2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. 3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans” (About Us). Governed and Staffed The Peace Corps is a national organization that is governed and staffed by people who are dedicated leaders. The leadership involves not only a director and deputy director, but also is staffed globally by three different individuals which are regional directors in Africa, Asia, and Inter-America and the Pacific (“Peace Corps”, 2010). Although the Peace Corps is a national organization the U.S Government is part of the executive branch because this is a federal agency. The person that selects the directors is...
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...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Alex Monroe BSHS 461 - Building Community in Human Service Organizations University of Phoenix October 29, 2013 Peter Petsas Jr., LCSW Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Introduction Habitat for Humanity (HFH) International is the lead voice on a worldwide level in regards to the issues of poverty housing. This organization also addresses the issues of poverty housing through its affiliates on national, state, and local levels. In the U.S. alone Habitat has over 1,500 affiliates in cities, counties, and states all over the country. Founded and established by the late Millard Fuller and his wife Linda in 1976 Habitat for Humanity has been a major force in providing affordable housing for poverty stricken and low-income families all over the world. According to Habitat for Humanity International (2013), “Habitat has helped build or repair more than 600,000 houses and served more than 3 million people around the world” (Habitat today). For the last 37 years Habitat for Humanity has worked tirelessly providing housing for families who cannot obtain homeownership through traditional means. Vision and Mission In the United States there are over 46 million individuals living in poverty (Thomas Reuters Corporation, 2013). With minimum wage not having the capability to keep up with the rising costs of living working individuals struggle to maintain sufficient housing...
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...The Impact of Job Characteristics on Social and Human Service Workers Reva I. Allen/Eric G. Lambert/Sudershan Pasupuleti/Terry Cluse-Tolar/Lois A. Ventura, Department of Social Work, University of Toledo 1 In many career fields, there is a tendency to try to find the right person for the job instead of trying to make the job right for the person. Koeske and Kirk (1995) wrote, “Social work administrators presume that there are certain characteristics of human service workers that predispose some of the workers to thrive in a particular job while workers with other characteristics are more likely to dislike the job or do poorly” (p. 15). Additionally, some administrators of social and human service agencies appear to be more concerned with the impact of workers on their agency than the impact of the organization on workers. “Blaming the employee” focuses the attention away from the real causes (Arches 1991). It is true that social and human service workers can and do have meaningful effects on their employing organizations. It is, however, naive to assume that employees are not affected by the organization. It is reasonable to assume that many employees who have negative or positive impacts on the employing organization do so because of how they were treated at work. The work environment has real and lasting effects on most employees. It is generally theorized that the work environment influences employees mainly through their attitudinal states, and these...
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...Characteristics and Environment Paper Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Lillie Taylor BSHS/462 November 18, 2013 Sharla Hansen Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Introduction In this paper it will discuss and address a human service organization. The organizations vision and mission will be addressed. The organization staff and how it is governed will also be talked about in this paper. The key stakeholders will be discussed and the influence each may have on how the human service organization is operated. The community collaborations, and marketing, and public relations strategies of the organizations will be addressed, and the importance of these collaborations, and how they affect the organization as well as the community. The organization dealings with diversity issues will also be addressed. Environmental trends will also be evaluated through the political, economic, social, and technology issues for the organization when trying to serve, and fulfill the needs of the people in the community will be discussed. The Human Service Organization The Norton Love Community Center is located in High Grove, California; the center provides a community center that focuses on meeting the basic needs of the community. The center offers seniors two healthy meals and nutritional snacks daily Monday thru Friday. The...
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...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization BSHS/462 Building Community In Organizations Human service organizations are all geared towards improving the lives of those who utilize their services. Each agency has its own visions, goals, trends, key stakeholders and ways of reaching the community that it is servicing. This paper will address these topics as well as other about the organization that services Wake County in North Carolina that strives to keep children safe through their services by helping the child, as well as, the parent. Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization [The body of your paper uses a half-inch first line indent and is double-spaced. APA style provides for up to five heading levels, shown in the paragraphs that follow. Note that the word Introduction should not be used as an initial heading, as it’s assumed that your paper begins with an introduction.] Organization In 1992, . (JLR) established . was created as an agency to prevent child abuse. The organization’s purpose is to assist the human services offered in Wake County. “The Junior League Inc. is a member of an international organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.” (Junior League of Raleigh, 2014) Mission and Vision mission is to support Wake...
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...An agency or organization can help overcomes employee’s resistance to change by helping employees overcome their fears by talking about the changes that will be taking place, reassuring employees that change is necessary and needed to plan and help develop strategic plans for the future and the environment. An agency or provides training and development programs to complement the agency’s mission and operations, while projecting the demand for services, develop new resources and help determine the appropriate reallocation of services that will be changing. Training and development are essential to the effective use of an organization's human resources and are integral parts of its human resource planning. Training is used to remedy immediate needs, while development is concerned with long-term objectives and the ability to cope with change. Training and development should be viewed as a continuous process. There will always be new employees, new positions, new problems, changes in technology, and changes in the external and internal environments that require a planned approach to training and development and its integration with other HRM functions. Training and development influence recruitment, selection, career planning, and the compatibility between agency goals and employee aspirations. Training and development programs must be integrated to complement the organization's mission and operations. Organizations should use employees wisely with respect to the strategic needs...
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...Need, Wish and Demand. Need: represents a requirement born in human nature or in social life (restricted).Wish: Means favoured by the consumer to satisfy a need (limitless). Demand: is the Behaviour of consumption of a product or a service to answer wish aiming at satisfying the need supported by the power of purchase. Let us keep that marketing does not create the need. On the other hand, it provokes wish for a product or a service which can answer the one - or even several - basic needs. If the number of needs is restricted, the number of wishes is infinite. It is the reason for which all imagination is associated to the product and to its functional characteristics is essential: one speaks about symbolic envelope which transcends the product itself. In marketing sense, a product is any entity likely to satisfy a need or a wish. It can therefore be: an object, a service, an activity, a place, a human being, an organization, an idea, etc... When a need meets the characteristics of a product or service, the benefit can be functional or symbolic. Examples: Functional benefit: « An apparatus autofocus (characteristics) allows achieving photographs every time (functional benefit); the presence of fluorine in a dentifrice (characteristics) allows not having teeth decays, not to suffer and to economize some silver (functional benefits) ». Symbolism benefit: « The wooden presence on the performance indicators (characteristics) allows expressing a certain social wealth in relation to its...
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...do interesting work, feeling my job is important, being told my boss when I do a good job, opportunity for self-development and improvement, and large amount of freedom on the job. When creating a reward system these factors should be considered. “The relationship among organizational structure, employee satisfaction and motivation can be explained jointly by the characteristics of the jobs and by the attributes of the individuals employed (Oldham and Hackman, 1981). Some other studies also support the notion that characteristics of the job have direct impact on the work outcomes (e.g., Champoux, 1991; Bhuian and Mengue, 2002; Thomas et al, 2004; and Garg and Rastogi, 2006). Loher et al. (1985) concluded that there is a significant relationship between job characteristics and job satisfaction. In a study Thomas et al (2004) found a significant positive relationship between skill variety, autonomy, feedback and job satisfaction. Moreover job designs which enable a high level of employee control also provide better chance for the development of exercise of skills (Morrison et al , 2005) . Job characteristics and job satisfaction among employees have substantial positive relations with job...
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...(ID: 55569009) Yunmei Wang (ID: 5569006） Content 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Organizational Culture of Sustainable Tourism 3.0 Government's Policies in Sustainable Tourism Management 4.0 Characteristics and Diversities in Sustainable Tourism 5.0 Tourist Behaviors in Sustainable Tourism 6.0 The Relationship between Sustainable Tourism and Environment Protection 7.0 Conclusion 8.0 Bibliography 1.0 Introduction Today, as the world economy，science and technology and cultural developing aggressively , the increase of personal income and free time, Labor and Leisure has become two important aspects of an integral human social life. Today, leisure sports and tourism is the world's most widely used recreational activities. Leisure sports, people enjoy the beauty and movement created by a pleasant activity in order to express themselves to the outside world. Homer and Swatchbrooke (1996) defined tourism as tourism refers to people temporarily leave permanent residence elsewhere in recreational activities. Tourism is part of the tertiary industry. Tourism enterprise is the core of the development of tourism. Hotels, travel agencies and various conservation parks and other tourism enterprises in the economic environment will inevitably encounter a variety of problems, even crisis that threats their own survival. Comprehend from organizational behavior science crisis is our research focus and...
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...Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Human Service Workers BSHS 471 Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health Human Service Workers Skills and characteristics are essential in the Human Service Profession to be efficient in helping the clients. The Human Service Professional is a one of a kind individual, which requires skills and certain characteristics that very few people have. This paper will discuss the skills and characteristics and the definition of the two which are essential in this field, as well as the writer’s skills and characteristics that will lead to a successful career as a Human Service Professional. According to "Merriam Webster" (2014) the definition of skill is “the ability to do something that comes from training, experience, or practice” (skill). According to "Merriam Webster" (2014) the definition of characteristic is “a special quality or trait that makes a person, thing, or group different from others” (characteristic) Working in the Human Services field can be a very stressful and over whelming job for many people. I believe that there are people that were born to help others and those that have been taught to be caring and compassionate. While not every person is cut out to be on the front line of this field, those that are become very skillful people. It takes a special person to be willing to give up their lives and time to help others and to not make a lot of money is a characteristic he or she has naturally. This group...
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...Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Lorie Janovsky BSHS/462 June 11, 2012 Kara Coleman Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization When an individual is seeking help with issues that may arise in their life, finding the right human service organization is essential. The object of this paper is to evaluate one human service agency’s mission and values, stakeholders influence on the agency, marketing and public relations of the agency, and value of diversity demonstrated within the agency. The agency chosen is The United Way of Central Massachusetts. The United Way of Central Massachusetts The United Way of Central Massachusetts made a commitment to improve the lives of people in the community (United Way of Central Mass, 2010). Their vision is to have “a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability, and healthy lives” (United Way Worldwide, 2012). The mission of The United Way is “to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good” (United Way Worldwide, 2012). The United Way began back in 1887 by a Denver woman, a priest, two ministers, and a rabbi (United Way Worldwide, 2012). The organization was created “to serve as an agent to collect funds for local charities, as well as to coordinate relief services, counsel and refer clients to cooperating agencies, and make emergency assistance grants in cases...
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...第十五屆決策分析研討會 The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Case Study: Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. Chakrit Chansukko William Firman Ha Tuan Anh Abstract The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award framework is probably the best-known excellence award model, and the world’s most widely used excellence framework for self-assessment. The criteria are designed to help organizations improve their competitiveness by focusing on two goals: continually delivering improved value to customers, and improving overall organizational performance. Our final project concentrates on Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, which receives the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the service category. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company manages thirty six luxury hotels in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. All have received four- or five-star ratings from the Mobil Travel Guide and diamond ratings from the American Automobile Association. The Ritz-Carlton company has received all the major awards the hospitality industry and leading consumer organizations can bestow. It is the first and only hotel company twice honored with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the United States Department of Commerce. The Ritz-Carlton method is close attention to performance data collection and a broad educational platform to deliver the findings. In this report, we will study deeply about The Ritz-Carlton Company, the external and internal performance...
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...and theorizing about managing many years before. We can see that the many different contributions of writers and practitioners have resulted in different contributions of writers and practitioners have resulted in different approaches to management, and these make up a man management theory jungle. We will first focus on the emergence of management thought, who have made significant contribution in the evaluation of management thought, major contribution are noted. Definition of Management: Management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims (Koontz and Weihrich 1990, p. 4). In its expanded form, this basic definition means several things. First, as managers, people carry out the managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Second, management applies to any kind of organization. Third, management applies to managers at all organizational levels. Fourth, the aim of all managers is the same – to create surplus. Finally, managing is concerned with productivity – this implies...
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