Beyond Parochialism in Social Welfare Administration

Abstract

With the emergence of administration as a profession in its own right, and as schools of social work move to merge or combine their graduate programs in administration with those of other professional schools, there is an increasing need to clarify those aspects of administrative practice that appear to be common across a wide range of enterprises, and those which appear to be specific to social welfare administration. Drawing on conceptual formulations from the organizational literature, this paper points particularly to those aspects of social welfare administration for which social work faculty should retain major curricular responsibility.