Designing and Managing Programs: An Effectiveness-Based Approach (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services) - Hardcover

Kettner, Peter M.; Moroney, Robert M.; Martin, Lawrence L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412951941 ISBN 13: 9781412951944

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Designing and Managing Programs: An Effectiveness-Based Approach, Third Edition, is an updated version of THE classic book on program management and design. This new edition is written in a deliberate manner that has students following the program planning process in a logical manner. Students will learn to track one phase to the next, resulting in a solid understanding of the issues of internal consistency and planning integrity. The book's format guides students from problem analysis through evaluation, enabling students to apply these concepts to their own program plans.

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About the Author

Peter M. Kettner is Professor Emeritus at the Arizona State University School of Social Work. He is the author of six books, 50 articles, monographs, and book chapters on the topics of purchase-of-service contracting, privatization, macro practice in social work, human services planning, and social work administration. Over his 30 year career in academia he served as a consultant to five different state human service agencies and dozens of local nonprofit agencies on their purchase of service contracting practices and in the design and implementation of effectiveness-based planning systems. In retirement he has continued his writing and consultation with local government and nonprofit agencies.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412951941
• ISBN 13: 9781412951944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 320