Communities
A geographic area with high ethnic concentration and characteristic cultural identity.
What is an ethnic enclave?
This hiring practice considers race, ethnicity, and gender.
What is affirmative action?
Too many organizations will cause competition, and the environment in which the organizations exist will balance it. Some will continue to provide services, while others will lose customers or close.
What is an example of the ecosystem perspective applied to organizations?
A person's emotion being influenced by the environment and placement can be explained with this theory.
What is Mismatch Theory?
One example of this process is privatizing business and recreational spaces.
What is an example of social fragmentation?
An example of this practice is creating end of the year fiscal and operating reports.
What is accountability?
Organizations exist to create and provide employment opportunities in a community.
What is an example of the functionalist perspective applied to organizations?
Communities serve the purpose of creating opportunities for people to socially participate.
What is the functionalist perspective?
Areas that were modeled to create spaces for cars.
What are the suburbs?
Employees working on-site are more likely to receive a raise.
What is an issue with working remotely?
Within an organization there are positions that come with authority and power.
What is an example of the conflict perspective applied to organizations?
Political inaction (action without input from individuals in the community) can lead to societal oppression.
What is the conflict perspective?
A type of community this is not tied to location but to people with similar backgrounds or lifestyles and experiences
What is identificational community?
Goals that contradict mission goals.
What is goal displacement?
Efficiency, calculability, and predictability of an organization is grouped under this perspective.
What is the Rationale/Social Exchange Perspective?
The decline of the community due to misuse of resources or malinvestments.
What is entropy?
By-laws written into neighborhood regulations forbidding the sale of a house or land to a nonwhite person.
Meeting and replacing goals.
What is goal succesion?
What is an example of the constructionist perspective applied to organizations?
Social workers should consider crowding, noise levels, air pollution, sanitation, and access to transportation.
What is the ecosystem perspective?