Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yeheskel Hasenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yeheskel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | HASENFELD Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 593 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
When Professional Power Fails: A Power Relations Perspective
Social work professionals rely on claims of exclusive knowledge expertise and a code of ethics to exercise professional power and autonomy. Yet they may find themselves in organizational settings that diminish their professional power. In this case study of a supportive housing program for chronically homeless persons, we find that the professional social workers lost their power to property managers in critical decisions about their clients. Usi…
The Epistemological Challenges of Social Work Intervention Research
We argue that the dominance of an empiricist epistemology in social work research steers much of the research away from studying and explaining the structural forces that cause the conditions of oppression, exploitation, and social exclusion that are at the roots of the social problems addressed by the profession. It does so because it assumes that the research enterprise can be insulated from the broader cultural, socioeconomic, and political fo…
Social Enterprises as an Embodiment of a Neoliberal Welfare Logic
We explore the rise of social enterprises, particularly, work integration social enterprises (WISEs), their particular hybrid organizational form, and their impact on their clients. We propose that WISEs are an expression of a neoliberal welfare logic that challenges social rights by emphasizing market solutions to social needs and by devolving and privatizing social services to the local level and the private sector. We show that as a hybrid org…
Social Enterprises: An Organizational Perspective
Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin
Nonprofit Human-Service Organizations, Social Rights, and Advocacy in a Neoliberal Welfare State
The hallmark of the welfare state is the extension of social rights to the most vulnerable, a cause historically championed by nonprofit human-service organizations. With the rise of neoliberalism, these rights are threatened. This article attempts to show how the institutional, economic, and political environment of the nonprofit human-service sector is reshaped by a neoliberal ideology that celebrates market fundamentalism. The ideology institu…
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
Human services as complex organizations
Commentary on Beyes & Jäger, and Galaskiewicz: A rebuttal
Understanding multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations: The contributions of theories on civil society, social movements and non-profit organizations
The paper offers a theoretical framework to study the conditions that lead to the emergence of multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations and the factors that influence their ability to mobilize resources and enlist commitment. These organizations are characterized by four interrelated attributes: (a) they set out as their mission to uphold and promote cultural values that are typically at variant with dominant and institutionalized values; (b)…
The Logic of Sanctioning Welfare Recipients: An Empirical Assessment
The 1996 welfare reform legislation expanded the use of sanctions under the assumption that welfare recipients can comply with work requirements and that they can calculate the costs and benefits of compliance. This research tests the validity of these assumptions through a record‐ and survey‐based study of California welfare recipients. The article questions the validity of the assumptions, finding that, compared to nonsanctioned recipients, san…
Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine
Peace and conflict‐resolution organizations (P/CROs) are civil society organizations dedicated to resolving protracted conflicts. Teams of local researchers coordinated by an international advisory board, investigate the characteristics, roles, similarities, and differences of P/CROs in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine in the last third of the twentieth century. Comparative research of this sort throws up definitional, concept…
Organizational Forms as Moral Practices: The Case of Welfare Departments
Human service organizations that aim to change behavior inevitably do moral work. As institutionalized organizations, they enact in their structure and practices dominant moral systems. Moral systems and rules within them emanate from several sources, including nationally powerful interest groups and organizations, local constituencies, and organizational and street‐level moral entrepreneurs. By studying the historical transformation of welfare d…
Social Services and Welfare-to-Work: Prospects for the Social Work Profession
Peace and Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology
Guided by organizational and social movement theories, this study compares the structures, resource bases, ideologies, and strategies of nongovernmental organizations engaged in peace and conflict resolution (P/CROs) in three regions with extended violent conflicts: Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. Qualitative content analysis techniques are used to analyze 27 detailed case reports. We analyze the funding patterns and structu…
We the Poor People: Work, Poverty, and Welfare
Current welfare reforms-including recently enacted federal legislation-are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working poor, a group that includes most welfare recipients. The surest way to solve the problem is to create jobs and supplement low-wage work. The authors of…
Case management practices, participants' responses, and compliance in welfare-to-work programs
Journal Article Case management practices, participants' responses, and compliance in welfare-to-work programs Get access Dale Weaver, PhD, Dale Weaver, PhD lecturer and research associate Department of Social Welfare, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 5313 Public Policy Building, Box 951656, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Enforcement, Compliance, and Disputes in Welfare-to-Work Programs
Mandatory welfare-to-work programs are a cornerstone of current welfare reform efforts, but achieving compliance has been difficult for these programs, in part because the organizational issues facing welfare-to-work programs have not been considered. In this analysis of case management practices in four of California's Greater Avenues to Independence programs, we demonstrate how organizational arrangements influence client compliance with progra…
Enforcing a Participation Mandate in a Welfare-to-Work Program
In this article, we use data from a six-county evaluation of California's welfare-to-work program for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) to examine the consequences of emphasizing either personalized attention or formal penalties to achieve compliance with the program's participation mandate. Among the outcomes measured were the degree of recipients' participation in program activities, recipients' perceptions of the pro…
Living on the edge: The realities of welfare in America
Privatization in Four European Countries: Comparative Studies in Government-Third-Sector Relationships and Privatization and Mental Health Care: A Fragile Balance
Journal Article Privatization in Four European Countries: Comparative Studies in Government-Third-Sector Relationships and Privatization and Mental Health Care: A Fragile Balance Get access Privatization in Four European Countries: Comparative Studies in Government-Third-Sector RelationshipsKramer Ralph M., Lorentzen Hakon, Pasquinelli Sergio, and Melief Willem B.. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. 256 pp. $55.00 hardback, ISBN 1-56324-132-3. Privat…
The Moral Construction of Poverty: Welfare Reform in America
Introduction What is Welfare Policy? The Historical Development of Welfare Policy To the New Deal From the New Deal to the Present Welfare and Work The Institutionalization of Moral Ambiguity Welfare-Work Programs The New Poorhouse? The Contemporary Reform 'Consensus' Symbolic and Structural Ambiguity Redux
The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America
Organizational Dilemmas in the Provision of Home-Care Services
Home care for the frail elderly is in a state of crisis. While demand is rapidly increasing, the home-care industry is beset by organizational problems that undermine its ability to respond effectively. We have identified and analyzed four sets of problems. First, home-care services exist in a turbulent fiscal and political environment that undermines organizational stability. Second, service effectiveness depends on close interpersonal relations…
Self-Help Groups and Human Service Organizations: An Interorganizational Perspective
In this article, we examine the conditions that give rise to relations between human service organizations and self-help groups and the forms that such relations may assume. Using an interorganizational perspective, we develop a model that compares self-help groups and human service organizations. This model is used to derive propositions about the conditions that lead to interorganizational relations between these two kinds of social organizatio…
Cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward welfare-state programs: Path analysis with log-linear models
Nonprofit Human-Service Organizations, Social Rights, and Advocacy in a Neoliberal Welfare State
The hallmark of the welfare state is the extension of social rights to the most vulnerable, a cause historically championed by nonprofit human-service organizations. With the rise of neoliberalism, these rights are threatened. This article attempts to show how the institutional, economic, and political environment of the nonprofit human-service sector is reshaped by a neoliberal ideology that celebrates market fundamentalism. The ideology institu…
People Processing Organizations: An Exchange Approach
This paper sets forth a framework for analyzing the role of organization-environment relations in defining the classification-disposition functions of people-processing organizations. People processing organizations are defined as attempting to achieve changes in their clients not by altering basic personal attributes, but by conferring on them a public status and relocating them in a new set of social circumstances. The paper's basic proposition…
Organizational Forms as Moral Practices: The Case of Welfare Departments
Human service organizations that aim to change behavior inevitably do moral work. As institutionalized organizations, they enact in their structure and practices dominant moral systems. Moral systems and rules within them emanate from several sources, including nationally powerful interest groups and organizations, local constituencies, and organizational and street‐level moral entrepreneurs. By studying the historical transformation of welfare d…
The Determinants of Public Attitudes toward the Welfare State
Journal Article The Determinants of Public Attitudes Toward the Welfare State Get access Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Yeheskel Hasenfeld University of California, Los Angeles Direct correspondence to Yeheskel Hasenfeld, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jane A. Rafferty Jane A. Rafferty University of Michigan Search for other works by this aut…
Power in Social Work Practice
The role of power in social work practice has been generally understated despite its importance to the course and outcome of the clinical process. This paper examines the sources of power of workers and clients, and, by using a power-dependence perspective, it explores the consequences of power on social work practice. It is argued that, in most instances, the effectiveness of social work practice is predicated on the enhancement of the power res…
The Logic of Sanctioning Welfare Recipients: An Empirical Assessment
The 1996 welfare reform legislation expanded the use of sanctions under the assumption that welfare recipients can comply with work requirements and that they can calculate the costs and benefits of compliance. This research tests the validity of these assumptions through a record‐ and survey‐based study of California welfare recipients. The article questions the validity of the assumptions, finding that, compared to nonsanctioned recipients, san…
Understanding multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations: The contributions of theories on civil society, social movements and non-profit organizations
The paper offers a theoretical framework to study the conditions that lead to the emergence of multi-purpose hybrid voluntary organizations and the factors that influence their ability to mobilize resources and enlist commitment. These organizations are characterized by four interrelated attributes: (a) they set out as their mission to uphold and promote cultural values that are typically at variant with dominant and institutionalized values; (b)…
Enforcement, Compliance, and Disputes in Welfare-to-Work Programs
Mandatory welfare-to-work programs are a cornerstone of current welfare reform efforts, but achieving compliance has been difficult for these programs, in part because the organizational issues facing welfare-to-work programs have not been considered. In this analysis of case management practices in four of California's Greater Avenues to Independence programs, we demonstrate how organizational arrangements influence client compliance with progra…
Enforcing a Participation Mandate in a Welfare-to-Work Program
In this article, we use data from a six-county evaluation of California's welfare-to-work program for recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) to examine the consequences of emphasizing either personalized attention or formal penalties to achieve compliance with the program's participation mandate. Among the outcomes measured were the degree of recipients' participation in program activities, recipients' perceptions of the pro…
Social Enterprises as an Embodiment of a Neoliberal Welfare Logic
We explore the rise of social enterprises, particularly, work integration social enterprises (WISEs), their particular hybrid organizational form, and their impact on their clients. We propose that WISEs are an expression of a neoliberal welfare logic that challenges social rights by emphasizing market solutions to social needs and by devolving and privatizing social services to the local level and the private sector. We show that as a hybrid org…
Citizens' Encounters with Welfare State Bureaucracies
A model explaining citizens' evaluations of bureaucratic encounters with welfare state programs is developed from a power-dependence perspective. The model is tested on a random sample of bureaucratic encounters. The findings suggest that income, eligibility rule, expectations, and perception of influence affect the perceived outcome and evaluation of the encounter. Implications of the findings regarding the validity of the model and future resea…
Implementation of Social Policy Revisited
This article assesses the state of theory development in the study of social policy implementation and offers a political economy framework as a synthesis of current theory and research. The article reviews and classifies the major theoretical and empirical studies of implementation. On the basis of the review, a political economy model of implementation is developed, consisting of the following components: policy-making, policy instruments, crit…
The Juvenile Court as a People-Processing Organization: A Political Economy Perspective
The utility of a political economy perspective in explaining patterns of people processing in human service organizations is explored. The political economy framework is applied to juvenile courts and used to generate hypotheses about the organizational determinants of their input and output decisions, as signified by the proportion of cases that are judicially handled and the rate of commitment. The hypotheses are tested on data collected in a n…
The Epistemological Challenges of Social Work Intervention Research
We argue that the dominance of an empiricist epistemology in social work research steers much of the research away from studying and explaining the structural forces that cause the conditions of oppression, exploitation, and social exclusion that are at the roots of the social problems addressed by the profession. It does so because it assumes that the research enterprise can be insulated from the broader cultural, socioeconomic, and political fo…
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
Cross-cultural comparison of attitudes toward welfare-state programs: Path analysis with log-linear models
When Professional Power Fails: A Power Relations Perspective
Social work professionals rely on claims of exclusive knowledge expertise and a code of ethics to exercise professional power and autonomy. Yet they may find themselves in organizational settings that diminish their professional power. In this case study of a supportive housing program for chronically homeless persons, we find that the professional social workers lost their power to property managers in critical decisions about their clients. Usi…
Peace and Conflict Resolution Organizations in Three Protracted Conflicts: Structures, Resources and Ideology
Guided by organizational and social movement theories, this study compares the structures, resource bases, ideologies, and strategies of nongovernmental organizations engaged in peace and conflict resolution (P/CROs) in three regions with extended violent conflicts: Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine. Qualitative content analysis techniques are used to analyze 27 detailed case reports. We analyze the funding patterns and structu…
Organizational Dilemmas in the Provision of Home-Care Services
Home care for the frail elderly is in a state of crisis. While demand is rapidly increasing, the home-care industry is beset by organizational problems that undermine its ability to respond effectively. We have identified and analyzed four sets of problems. First, home-care services exist in a turbulent fiscal and political environment that undermines organizational stability. Second, service effectiveness depends on close interpersonal relations…
Self-Help Groups and Human Service Organizations: An Interorganizational Perspective
In this article, we examine the conditions that give rise to relations between human service organizations and self-help groups and the forms that such relations may assume. Using an interorganizational perspective, we develop a model that compares self-help groups and human service organizations. This model is used to derive propositions about the conditions that lead to interorganizational relations between these two kinds of social organizatio…
Integrated Information Systems for Social Work Practice
Most human service agencies adopt computer technology primarily to support administrative decisions. In agencies, however, a close relationship between direct practice and administrative decisions exists. This requires an information system that supports decisions regarding case management, treatment planning, monitoring, and evaluation. An integrated information system—one that utilizes a relational data base for both direct practice and adminis…
Implementation of Change in Human Service Organizations: A Political Economy Perspective
A political economy perspective is offered as the framework for analyzing the implementation of change in human service organizations. Change is defined as the modification of the resource-allocation rules in the organization, resulting in shifts of power among units in it. Its success or failure will be determined by the ability of the change agents to concomitantly bring about a favorable shift in the allocation of resources to support the chan…
The Administration of Human Services
Human service programs have gone from a period of rapid growth in the 1960s and early 1970s to a period of retrenchment in the 1980s. The changing political and economic context has forced these programs to undergo major organizational transformations and to adopt different administrative strategies. These include degovernmentalization of social services, reliance on cutback management, and deprofessionalization of human-service workers. The arti…
Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services . Michael Lipsky
Community Mental Health Centers as Human Service Organizations
Organizational Dilemmas in Innovating Social Services: The Case of the Community Action Centers
It is proposed that the precariousness of the Community Action Centers was due to unresolved organizational and administrative problems. The study of four Community Action Centers indicated that their eflectiveness was hampered by major organizational problems including an inability to develop stable bases of support in the community, failure to establish crucial and systematic service linkages with other social service agencies, lack of an infor…
People Processing Organizations: An Exchange Approach
This paper sets forth a framework for analyzing the role of organization-environment relations in defining the classification-disposition functions of people-processing organizations. People processing organizations are defined as attempting to achieve changes in their clients not by altering basic personal attributes, but by conferring on them a public status and relocating them in a new set of social circumstances. The paper's basic proposition…
The Role of Employment Placement Services in Maintaining Poverty
This study explores the function and operations of the specialized employment placement services for the poor that emerged in the 1960s. The proposition is advanced that an important function of these agencies in serving the poor is to meet the labor needs of low-wage industries and that, in doing so, they are likely to reinforce the unfavorable occupational attributes associated with the working poor as well as their low earnings. Findings from …
Organizations as Bargaining and Influence Systems . Peter Abell
The Management of Human Services
Examines the social welfare institutions in the United States during the first three-quarters of the 20th century when states were facing a crisis in terms of their societal legitimation, allocation of resources, public expectations, and management
Brought to Justice: Juveniles, the Courts, and the Law
Brought to Justice: Juveniles, the Courts, and the Law
Implementation of Change in Human Service Organizations: A Political Economy Perspective
A political economy perspective is offered as the framework for analyzing the implementation of change in human service organizations. Change is defined as the modification of the resource-allocation rules in the organization, resulting in shifts of power among units in it. Its success or failure will be determined by the ability of the change agents to concomitantly bring about a favorable shift in the allocation of resources to support the chan…
Leadership in Social Administration . Felice Perlmutter , Simon Slavin
Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services . Michael Lipsky
Human service organizations
Social Welfare Administration: Managing Social Programs in a Developmental Context . Rino J. Patti
The Changing Context of Human Services Administration
In response to economic, political, and other changes in their environment, human service agencies undergo a financial and ideological crisis. This crisis leads to major transitions in the administration of agencies that are expressed by degovernmentalization (the shift to nongovernmental jurisdiction over human services), privatization, and cutback management. This article explores the implications of these transitions for both the delivery and …
A Prefatory Essay on the Future Administration of Human Services
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Citizens' Encounters with Welfare State Bureaucracies
A model explaining citizens' evaluations of bureaucratic encounters with welfare state programs is developed from a power-dependence perspective. The model is tested on a random sample of bureaucratic encounters. The findings suggest that income, eligibility rule, expectations, and perception of influence affect the perceived outcome and evaluation of the encounter. Implications of the findings regarding the validity of the model and future resea…
The Administration of Human Services
Human service programs have gone from a period of rapid growth in the 1960s and early 1970s to a period of retrenchment in the 1980s. The changing political and economic context has forced these programs to undergo major organizational transformations and to adopt different administrative strategies. These include degovernmentalization of social services, reliance on cutback management, and deprofessionalization of human-service workers. The arti…
Community Mental Health Centers as Human Service Organizations
The Juvenile Court as a People-Processing Organization: A Political Economy Perspective
The utility of a political economy perspective in explaining patterns of people processing in human service organizations is explored. The political economy framework is applied to juvenile courts and used to generate hypotheses about the organizational determinants of their input and output decisions, as signified by the proportion of cases that are judicially handled and the rate of commitment. The hypotheses are tested on data collected in a n…
Integrated Information Systems for Social Work Practice
Most human service agencies adopt computer technology primarily to support administrative decisions. In agencies, however, a close relationship between direct practice and administrative decisions exists. This requires an information system that supports decisions regarding case management, treatment planning, monitoring, and evaluation. An integrated information system—one that utilizes a relational data base for both direct practice and adminis…
Is Bureaucratic Growth Inevitable
Power in Social Work Practice
The role of power in social work practice has been generally understated despite its importance to the course and outcome of the clinical process. This paper examines the sources of power of workers and clients, and, by using a power-dependence perspective, it explores the consequences of power on social work practice. It is argued that, in most instances, the effectiveness of social work practice is predicated on the enhancement of the power res…
The Determinants of Public Attitudes toward the Welfare State
Journal Article The Determinants of Public Attitudes Toward the Welfare State Get access Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Yeheskel Hasenfeld University of California, Los Angeles Direct correspondence to Yeheskel Hasenfeld, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jane A. Rafferty Jane A. Rafferty University of Michigan Search for other works by this aut…
Executive Behavior in Community Service Organizations
This article presents research findings on the behavior of executives in community service organizations in Israel. The uniqueness of the study is that it collected the data by observing one directors' behavior over the course of their entire workday. Findings were compared to those regarding executive behavior in other sectors- social welfare, educational, and business-from an international perspective. Similar to the behavior of their counterpa…
Implementation of Social Policy Revisited
This article assesses the state of theory development in the study of social policy implementation and offers a political economy framework as a synthesis of current theory and research. The article reviews and classifies the major theoretical and empirical studies of implementation. On the basis of the review, a political economy model of implementation is developed, consisting of the following components: policy-making, policy instruments, crit…
A Response to Emerson and Van Buren
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