Social Service Management

专业介绍

Introduction

With the recent calls for greater accountability in the delivery of social services, and the increasing demands for higher service quality, agency administrators and professional practitioners are increasingly demanded to enhance their competence in managing their agencies efficiently and effectively. This need is particularly evident with the implementation of the Enhanced Productivity Programme and the Lump Sum Grant in the local social welfare sector and the rapid growth of the social work/social welfare sector in Mainland China. As a result, organisational management has become an important part of the core competences of social work administrators. They have to keep abreast of new knowledge and skills in organisational management to enable them provide better services to the public.

In view of these circumstances, the Department offers one-year full-time Master of Arts in Social Service Management (MASSM) Programme to cater for the needs of the social service sector. The Programme intends to help students acquire a good knowledge base on social service management to supplement or complement their job competency.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Programme, students are expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding of:

1) The theoretical foundations and conceptual frameworks of social service management;

2) Professional knowledge and skills used in social welfare administration, for example, management theories, strategic planning, resource allocation, financial control, staffing, programme evaluation, and the use of information technology in social service management; and

3) The use of research and other scientific methods in addressing critical social service management issues