Collaborating with Human Service Professionals Summary of the Case Mary‚ a 31-year-old single mother of three children (ages 9‚ 5‚ and 3) has been seeing Annabelle‚ a mental health counselor at a community mental health center for about 4 months. She has become increasingly anxious over past few weeks and reports that she feels frightened all the time‚ is unable to sleep through the night‚ and worries that “something horrible is going to happen.” She also admits to having a
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Professional Counseling Positions and Settings Latisha Hale CNSL 502 February 7‚ 2012 Dr. Snyder Professional Counseling Positions and Settings Professional counseling has been a growing field for many years. According to the United States Department of Labor (2010)‚ in 2008 all counselors’ positions totaled 665‚500 jobs. The professions involved in counseling are Educational‚ vocational‚ and school counselors‚ Rehabilitation counselors‚ mental health counselors‚ Substance abuse
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servants is the realisation of public interest as opposed to group or private interest. The objective of this paper is to highlight moral crises arising out of its fast devaluation that has affected almost every section of the society including bureaucracy. Bangladeshi civil services sector has increasingly become dysfunctional‚ fragmented‚ poorly organized‚ and incapable of performing at a level acceptable to the public. In recent years‚ Bangladeshi civil service has become too much politicized which
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Background One.Tel was launched by Jodee Rich and Brad Keeling in 1995 (Cook‚ 2001). At first‚ it looked to get the advantages from deregulation of telecommunication industry by reselling other network’s capacity and making money through stock market speculation. Rich and Keeling tried to increase the company’s shares rather than to profit the company (Cook‚ 2001). Initially‚ One.Tel used to develop the culture of strong teamwork and togetherness. There was no hierarchy in the structure of the company
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centered and that gives their work meaning” (Warren G. Bennis). This article will critically evaluate the understanding and meaning of leadership and culture‚ and also compare and contrast the bureaucratic and the post-bureaucratic era. What is post/bureaucracy? Bureaucratic organisations are based upon rules and hierarchy of the structure where poor employee motivation‚ inertia are common. According to Max Weber‚ bureaucratic structures are the most efficient models. The structure is centralised with
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structure‚ machine bureaucracy‚ professional bureaucracy‚ divisionalized form‚ and adhocracy. (Mintzberg‚ 1981) pg. 103. Simple structure as Mintzberg points out is‚ “not much more than one large unit consisting of one or a few top managers.” (Mintzberg‚ 1981) pg. 105. Machine bureaucracy is‚ “the offspring of industrialization‚ with its emphasis on the standardization of work for coordination and its resulting low skilled‚ highly specialized jobs.” (Mintzberg‚ 1981) pg. 108. Professional bureaucracy’s
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY ACADEMIC INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY VOLUME 14‚ NUMBER 1‚ 201 2 1 Mechanistic - Organic Organizations — A n Axiomatic Theory: Authority Based on Bureaucracy or Professional Norms Fred C. Lunenburg Sam Houston State University ABSTRACT M echanistic and organic organizations are opposite ends of a continuum of organizational structure possibilities. Mechanistic organizations are efficient‚ rigid‚ predictable‚ and standardized organizations. Specifically
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Scan Organizations are structured initially around tasks. As the organization develops‚ the structure of the organization can take on many characteristics. Mintzberg illustrated the basic structures as simple structure‚ machine bureaucracy‚ professional bureaucracy‚ divisionalized form‚ and adhocracy. There is a relationship between size and structure that affects the centralization of the organization. Technology affects organizational structures and affects whether they are categorized as
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independent inspections‚ maintaining separate files‚ with no coordination between departments. Each of these sections also had a high degree of specialization of skills and standardized operating procedures and thus in some ways also resembled a professional bureaucracy‚ as each frontline and supervisory inspector had mastered the technical issues and knowledge of federal law for only that particular medium. The Blackstone project sought to wrench the DEP out of its standardized practices‚ because it
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Introduction Organisational structure can be perceived in various angles that projects a new way of thinking in regards to building structure in the organisation. There are three perspectives mainly the modern‚ symbolic interpretive and postmodern that has varying view of theories in regards to the social structure in organisations. Each provides a distinctive scope on how the social structure should be constructed. In this essay we are going to explore the three different perspectives and how each
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