Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance
Abstract
An exploratory qualitative study examined the experiences of eleven county human service agencies’ as they embarked upon the budget reduction process during the years of the Great Recession, from 2008 to 2013. Through the analysis of 46 individual retrospective interviews with high level leadership in each organization, principles and values that guided decisions are identified. The study finds decision making strategies, including engagement with stakeholders, tactics employed for balancing the budget, and attempts to evaluate the success of such procedures and practices through the reflections of informants. Environmental and organizational factors that facilitated and constrained success are also reported. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Work
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Graaf, G.,Hengeveld-Bidmon, E., Carnochan, S. Radu, P., Austin, M. (2016).The impact of the Great Recession on county human service organizations: A cross case analysis. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 40(2), 152–169. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2015.1124820