Changing The “Culture” Of Welfare Offices
From Vision to the Front Lines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11104615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene Lurie (University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author), Norma M Riccucci (0000-0002-9229-7408, Rutgers University, Campus at Newark) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 653-677 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administration & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0095399702239169 |
| OpenAlex | W2101135457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines whether the 1996 welfare reform has led to the culture change in welfare offices advocated by welfare leaders and administrators. Examining a sample of state and local welfare systems, it asks whether and how welfare organizations are seeking to change their culture or, if not their culture, at least some of the structures and processes of their welfare systems. After unpacking the concept of culture in the context of welfare reform, the research finds that welfare leaders and administrators interpret the concept of culture change more broadly than do scholars of organizational culture.Welfare practitioners consider changes in structure and process as culture change, whereas scholars of organizational culture see these changes as only changes in artifacts. Scholars would consider these practitioners'interpretations to be superficial and would argue that they underestimate what it actually takes to effect changes in beliefs, perceptions, and feelings that are sufficiently deep to be called cultural transformations
Context (archaeology · Culture change · Economics · Feeling · Organizational culture · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare reform · Welfare state · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
Between a Rock and a Hard Place”
Responding to Welfare Reform
Implementation of the Welfare‐to‐Work Program in Arkansas
Investigating the health implications of social policy initiatives at the local level
Welfare and Work Sanctions
A randomized controlled trial to improve health among women receiving welfare in the U.S
Patients, Protocols, and Prosocial Behavior
Implementing Full and Partial Work Sanctions
Instruments for Exploring Organizational Culture
Managing child welfare agencies
Examining the Administration of Work Sanctions on the Frontlines of the Welfare System
Constraints on Local Welfare Discretion in an Era of Second‐Order Devolution
Seeking Justice
Activation Work
The Decline of Cash Welfare and Implications for Social Policy and Poverty
Inside the 'Smoke-Filled Room
Everyday interaction at the front-line
| Citations per year | 0.85 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |