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Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities through social welfare, health and mental health, criminal justice, and educational services. David Austin begins with an examination of the historical development and distinctive characteristics of human service organizations, the variety of organizational and program structures at play, and the con

This report on progress deals with the development of research resources within the field of social work since the 1991 report of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Task Force on social work research. This report on progress describes the NIMH investment in research development, other national research development initiatives, research dissemination, research publications, research conferences, and research development in social work education programs. Significant research domains are identified; the status of doctoral education is analyzed; and major sources of current funding for social work research are identified. A second section of the report includes a series of recommendations for future action to support future research initiatives within social work.

The political economy of the task environment of human service programmes is a major determinant of programme policy, and therefore of the nature of administrative practice. The dynamics of the political economy of particular programmes are shaped primarily by the nature of the public goods produced, rather than the private benefits to service users. Human service programmes produce one of three types of public goods: universal, redistributive, and behaviour change/social control. Each category involves distinctive programme policy and administrative issues. Changes in resource availability or in the political climate will have different consequences for each category of programme.