Exam 6: Social Service Organizational Settings, Goals and Environmental Contexts

Which of the following is NOT an environmental dimension impacting organizations and directly affecting its ability to survive and prosper?

Managed care controls costs through gatekeeping, which requires primary care physician authorization for all treatments or specialist care.

Which of the following is accurate regarding faith-based social services?

The _____ of an agency is described as a declaration of the organization's purpose that establishes broad and relatively permanent parameters within which goals are developed and specific programs designed.

Operative goals are often found in mission statements.

TANF established a lifetime limit of _____ years for receipt of benefits.

To what extent should the public pay for education and training for public assistance recipients?

Why is goal displacement a problem for workers in organizations? Using ecosystems theory, provide an example of goal displacement in an organization.

The text cited three reasons regarding the importance of organizations to practitioners. Which was NOT one of them?

Which of the following statements accurately describes primary agency settings?

Describe three sources of financial resources for social service agencies.

Briefly explain three areas in which there is much debate over current TANF provisions.

Authoritarianism is the condition where the external environment provides an agency with the appropriate status or authorization to perform agency functions and pursue agency goals.

Which statement accurately describes Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)?

Official goals are what the organization does in its day-to-day practice with clients.

Which of the following statements about goal displacement is FALSE?

Federal social legislation has major effects on what programs social service agencies can provide.

Define detached, collaborative, and competitive relationships among organizations.

Do you feel that children and families living in poverty should be supported by the government? If so, to what extent and under what circumstances? If not, why not?

An organization provides in-service treatment for alcoholic clients and receives virtually all of its referrals from local family services agencies providing family counseling and from local hospitals. This is an example of a(n) _____ relationship among organizations.