University/Agency Collaboration in Management Development Efforts
本文探讨社会服务机构与大学在管理培训方面合作的影响因素，分析学位项目与专业培训的适用性，对公共管理和社会服务管理者有参考价值。
During the past several years social service agencies, including income maintenance and medical assistance functions, have become increasingly, aware of their needs for more effective management. They have realized that their effectiveness is in large measure dependent upon the quality of personnel in positions of leadership. It is not surprising, then, that they have begun to turn to universities to provide training and development assistance to improve their management. The ability of these disparate institutions to establish effective collaborative relationships rests upon a number of factors, which will be explored in this article. Universities have long been involved in professional education. They have tended to focus their energies on degree programs at the masters level in which a prescribed course of study is offered to individuals aspiring to higher professional expertise. In recognition of this contribution to the education of their staffs, social service agencies have often sponsored employees in masters programs, particularly in the area of social work. The government has supported large numbers of MSWs in the past decade. Social service administrators, like other government administrators, are rethinking their training and development policies with particular emphasis on the needs for management development. On the one hand they question the usefulness of degree programs, and in the second instance they are looking toward models for advanced professional training that might be adapted from public administration and business administration programs. This new emphasis on management development in human service administration provides a tremendous opportunity for university/agency collaboration.