Deck 12: Social Work Practice With Organizations: Engagement, Assessment, and Planning

Question 1

The purpose of an organization reflects:

A) The finer points of its structure and mission
B) The reason for being
C) The flow of funding
D) The lines of authority

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is a purpose for which an organization exists?

A) Fostering social change
B) Filling a public mandate
C) Providing a particular service
D) All of the choices are purposes for which an organization exists

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which organization is mandated by law?

A) Family
B) Adults Protective Services
C) The church
D) Girl Scouts

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Organizations that are designated as 501©3 organizations are sanctioned by law to meet specified public needs.

Question 5

Social service organizations with service goals usually develop as a result of some kind of socially agreed upon need or concern.

Question 6

Grassroots organizations are organizations:

A) That started in the 1960s but no longer exist
B) That arise in response to a particular social problem
C) That are started by government social workers or bureaucrats
D) That have no formal organizational structure

Question 7

Someone who has experienced the social problem that is the primary mission of the organization is called:

A) A good citizen
B) A philanthropist
C) An indigenous worker
D) None of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of a social movement?

A) Mothers Against Drunk Driving
B) Alcoholics Anonymous
C) The National Rifle Association
D) Black Lives Matter

Question 9

Which influential thinker coined the term bureaucracy and saw it as a conceptual type of structure?

A) Signmund Freud
B) Karl Marx
C) Emilie Durkenheim
D) Max Weber

Question 10

Which of the following is a characteristic of a bureaucratic structure?

A) Has an economic system by which costs are assessed
B) Each position in the organization has a limited area of authority and responsibility
C) The system is controlled by the local, state, or federal government
D) All of the above responses are characteristics of a bureaucratic structure

Question 11

Which of the following terms best describes an organization that consists of a group of people who collectively work on organizational challenges or opportunities through committee or task force structures.

A) Bureaucracy
B) Hierarchy
C) Project team
D) Autocracy

Question 12

When an agency becomes too large for a single head to cover all the details of all the staff's work or all the programs, the development of a(n) ________ adds a layer of administration.

A) Functional structure
B) Bureaucracy
C) Autocracy
D) Democracy

Question 13

Which of the following is an example of harnessing traditional authority?

A) A celebrity running for president who has no previous political experience
B) Using the title of doctor while introducing oneself at a business conference
C) Being knowledgeable in the happenings of your organization's lunchroom
D) All of the

Question 14

Which of the types of authority is considered to be unstable?

A) Rational authority
B) Charismatic authority
C) Traditional authority
D) Housing authority

Question 15

Which of the types of authority is based on the ability to achieve outcomes?

A) Rational authority
B) Charismatic authority
C) Traditional authority
D) Housing authority

Question 16

A "host setting" is an organization that

A) Engages in cooperative programs with other agencies
B) Hires social workers who provide social service as a secondary activity
C) Provides funds to other organizations
D) Specialize in hosting other organizations

Question 17

A project or program that includes members of several traditions is called:

A) Hosting
B) Guest Status
C) An interprofessional team
D) None of the above

Question 18

Professionals of disciplines outside of social work may have inaccurate expectations of the social work role.

Question 19

The assessment of an organization includes research on factors both internal and external to the organization.

Question 20

A social worker examines and identifies the forces that could impact the outcomes of change efforts. This social work is engaging in which type of analysis?

A) SWOT analysis
B) Force Field analysis
C) Conventional analysis
D) None of the choices are correct

Question 21

Explain the process of engagement with organizations.

Question 22

Describe two elements of external assessment with organizations.

Question 23

Discuss what is meant by force field analysis and provide an example of how it can be used in combination with an organizational assessment.

Question 24

Describe a SWOT analysis.

Question 25

Describe the types of criteria that can be used to determine whether the organization tries to make a plan for change.

Question 26

Which of the following statements best describes the concept of bureaucracy?

A) Loosely affiliated groups of people that work through internal committees or task forces
B) A conceptual type, rather than a reality, of structure
C) A relatively concrete dimension of agency
D) A political effort designed to change some aspect of society

Question 27

Your county's department of social services has developed such a large table of organizations that is has divided itself up into differing divisions with a supervisor in charge of each division. This type of structure is best described as:

A) A functional structure
B) A bureaucracy
C) A grassroots movement
D) A democracy

Question 28

When a social worker works with an organization, the purpose of the assessment and planning phases is to determine if it feasible to move forward with an intervention.

Question 29

Identify and describe roles of the key players in a Force Field Analysis and a SWOT analysis.