Improving child welfare performance through supervisory use of client outcome data

Child Welfare

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 475-497

  Moore, Terry D ^a   Rapp, Charles A ^b   Roberts, Bethany ^b  

^a Off of Child Welf Res and Devmt   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; KANSAS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SOCIAL WORK; STAFF DEVELOPMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0034263803     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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