Empowering Staff in a “Poverty Agency
An Organization Development Intervention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6077141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Kantambu Latting (Group for Organizational Effectiveness), Angela Blanchard (Advisory Board Company (United States)) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 59-75 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-5422 • E-ISSN: 1543-3706 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j125v04n03_04 |
| OpenAlex | W2047413831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
Members of social work organizations often promote poverty as a virtue. They implicitly expect that truly dedicated employees should work for less than market wages and endure shabby work facilities and inadequate resources, resulting in institutionalized oppression. The result may be learned helplessness. This article reports the results of an organizational development intervention within a medium-sized human service organization that encouraged staff empowerment and visionary goal setting. The intervention supported the leadership's promotion of responsible business goals as well as service goals. The article also presents reactions of clients to the change. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of this case study for social work community practice
Agency (philosophy · Business · Community development · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Human services · Intervention (counseling · Oppression · Political science · Poverty · Promotion (chess · Public relations · Service (business · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Community Health and Development · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Nursing · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work · Marketing
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2017 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |