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SW 116: Social Welfare Agency Administration

This document outlines key concepts in social welfare agency administration. It discusses that agencies have a structured framework to carry out tasks, and outlines three types: governmental, private, and semi-private. It also describes the characteristics of public and private agencies, and concepts like the social system, inputs and outputs, open and closed systems, and multiple subsystem levels within organizations.

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SW 116: Social Welfare Agency Administration

This document outlines key concepts in social welfare agency administration. It discusses that agencies have a structured framework to carry out tasks, and outlines three types: governmental, private, and semi-private. It also describes the characteristics of public and private agencies, and concepts like the social system, inputs and outputs, open and closed systems, and multiple subsystem levels within organizations.

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SW 116: SOCIAL WELFARE

AGENCY ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCY (Cordero, E.,
et. al)

• Structured framework within which the administrative


tasks are carried out
• Peter Drucker outlines how a social welfare policy in
the simplest form comes into being when “several
people see an unmet need, want to meet that need,
and accept legal responsibility for seeing that the
resources secured, or made available, are used for the
specific purpose for which they were given rather
than for some other purpose.”
TYPES OF SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCY
(Cordero, E., et. al)
1. Governmental or public agencies which are
supported by taxes
2. Private or voluntary agencies sup[ported by private
contributions or donations or income from services
3. Semi-private or quasi-governmental organizations
so-called because they receive some subsidy, either
in cash or in kind from the government.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC
AGENCIES
1. (Cordero,
They E., et. al)
are created
- By constitutional mandate
- By legislative act
- By executive order of the President of the Philippines, presidential
decree, or letter of instruction
2. Their creation, functions, and programs can be created by law and
can be changed only by law.
3. Their organizational structure is bureaucratic and less flexible than
private agencies
They must conform with government procedures especially in
accounting and auditing of funds and property.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIVATE
AGENICES
(Cordero, E., et. al)
1. They are organized as a response of private
organizations to meet people’s needs in the
community.
2. They may be national chapters of international
organizations
3. They may have been established by sectarian or
non-sectarian organizations
CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIVATE
AGENICES
(Cordero, E., et. al)
4. They are governed by their own charters,
constitution and by-laws and a governing board.
5. Their organizational structure does not follow a
bureaucratic pattern, and therefore they are more
flexible in their policies and programs, and can respond
to people’s needs more quickly
6. Private agencies can pioneer and have
demonstration projects which later can be turned over
to the government
SOCIAL SYSTEM (Cordero, E., et. al)
• A whole with each part bearing a relation to every
other part and all are interdependent.
• According to William Link, it is “a purposeful organized
interrelationships of components in which the
performance of the whole exceeds the individual
outputs of all the parts.”
COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL SYSTEM
(Cordero, E., et. al)
• Input
• Output
• Throughput
Closed and Open Properties (Cordero, E., et.
al)
• Social system is permeable to other systems and is
affected by them.
• A characteristic of an open system is that the clientele
to be served by it comes from the community as well
as the resource inputs for its support and
maintenance.
• A closed system is one that is not affected by external
environment
Multiple Systems (Cordero, E., et. al)
• According to Link, the study of multiple system moves
from small view to large view.
• A program undertaken by social agency could be
viewed as a system by itself or a subsystem in relation
to the various agency programs in the community.
Systems Equilibrium (Cordero, E., et. al)
• Tendency of an organization to maintain uniform and
beneficial stability within and between its parts
A COMPLEX INPUT-OUTPUT SYSTEM
The Program as a System

MANAGER:

Plans, Organizes, Controls, Administers

Supply of Resource Input Outputs to Meet Demand

Money FUNCTIONAL SUBSYSTEMS: Treatment


Labor Services
Management Service(form utility) Wages
Fixed-Use Profits
Current-Use Satisfaction
Data Support (time &place utility)

Information Feedback
LEVELS IN THE ORGANIZATION
(Cordero, E., et. al)
1. Policy Level
The policy level function includes:
a) Policy-making in public agencies is a function of higher
officials based o constitutional mandate, legislative act,
executive order or presidential decree.
b) In a non-governmental organization the duly
constituted board of directors is responsible for policy
formulation
LEVELS IN THE ORGANIZATION
(Cordero, E., et. al)
2. Administrative or Executive
The administrative level function includes:
a) Participate in the formulation and determination of policy
b) Guide and direct the planning process
c) Organize the staff
d) Provide guidance, direction, supervision, coordination
and fiscal control
LEVELS IN THE ORGANIZATION
(Cordero, E., et. al)
e) Provide continuous interpretation of the agency to
the public, including the preparation of the annual
report;
f) Provide continuous evaluation to improve agency
standards
g) Represent the agency in the various councils and
other organizations in the community
LEVELS IN THE ORGANIZATION
(Cordero, E., et. al)
3. Supervisory Level
The function of the supervisor are:
a) Administrative
b) Executive
c) Helping
LEVELS IN THE ORGANIZATION
(Cordero, E., et. al)
4. Direct Service Level
• Direct service workers have the field contact with the
people or clients needing agency services or
assistance

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