Chapter 1
This term refers to a goal-directed, social entity designed as a deliberately structured and coordinated activity system with clearly defined membership.
What is an organization?
These are what you do and do not consider important.
What are Values?
This theory conceptualizes the social environment in terms of behavior, its preceding events, and its subsequent consequences.
What is Learning Theory?
Task groups are also referred to as this kind of group.
What are work groups?
This term refers, in the broadest sense, to the entire system of services, benefits, and programs designed to help people sustain themselves and their families.
What is social welfare?
This term is defined as a culturally expected behavior pattern for a person having a specified status or being involved in a designated social relationship.
What is a role?
This term concerns principles that specify what is good and what is bad.
What is/are Ethics?
This conceptual framework was initially developed by Kurt Lewin and focuses on the relationship between the group and its environment?
What is Field Theory?
Traditional work groups emphasize individual goals, while teams emphasize group goals.
What is how do teams differ from other types of work groups?
This type of social agency is run by some designated unit of government and is usually regulated by laws impacting policy.
What is a public agency?
The resources that are available, how they are distributed, and how they are spent are all these kind of forces.
What are economic forces?
These is when ethical standards conflict requiring generalist social workers to make difficult choices among several options.
What are ethical dilemmas?
An example of this theory would be a group member screaming, “FIRE!” followed by other members likely running out of the room.
What is respondent conditioning?
This term refers to a person with specialized skills and training who assists a professional in conducting his/her/their work.
What is a paraprofessional?
Organizational _______ is the study of human conduct in the workplace, the interaction between people and the organization, and the organization itself.
What is behavior?
According to systems theory, these are the borders or margins that separate one entity from another.
What are boundaries?
This term is defined as an individual’s right to make his/her/their own decisions.
What is self-determination?
An example of this would be the following: Whenever Benjamin arrives late to work, his coworker says, “Must be nice to sleep in!” in an annoying singsong voice. For a few days, Benjamin arrives to work on time and then the same coworker says nothing. Afterwards, Benjamin is punctual.
What is negative reinforcement?
This type of task group consists of a small group of people who conduct almost all of their collaborative work by electronic communication rather than in face-to-face meetings.
What is a virtual group?
This is true in organizations that apply classical organizational theories.
What is that minimal independent functioning on the part of employees is needed.
This is the tendency for a system to maintain a relatively stable, constant state of balance.
What is homeostasis?
Social Justice is one of the six of these of the National Association of Social Workers.
What are core values?
This theory emphasizes the impact of early life experiences on current feelings and behavior.
What is Psychoanalytic Theory?
Negative emotions are human, therefore acceptable, but social workers must use professional skill to create boundaries between their feelings and behaviors is a statement that accurately describes current research regarding the relationship between social workers’ feelings and their _____.
What are their behaviors?
One of these is NOT one of the four components that define (all) organizations:
Political entities
Goal-directed
Linked to the external environment
Designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems
What are political entities?