Management dilemmas in Catholic human service : health care, welfare, and education / Maureen Cleary ; with a commendatory preface by Patricia Wittberg
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Commendatory Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Structuring of Church and It's Human Services; Chapter 2: Cpnstructing a Theoretical Framework for Analysing Religious Human Service Organisations; Chapter 3: Introducing the Study: Methodology; Chapter 4: The Meaning System and Its Dilemmas; Chapter 5: Other Organizational Dilemmas; Chapter 6: The Management of Meaning: The Fundamental Dilemma of CHSOs in Australia; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This work seeks to identify and analyze certain management and governance dilemmas displayed in Australia's Catholic Human Service Organizations (CHSO). The research found that these problems are arising out of the complex interaction of the Church structures, external economic and political changes and a fundamental change in the personal base of these organizations. While quite uniform in the 1960s, Australian CHSOs have taken on multiple organizational forms in the past years due to rapid changes in the arenas in which they operate. Yet, in all these different forms, a single meaning system
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index
