Empowering staff in a “poverty agency”: An organization development intervention

Journal of Community Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 59-75

  Latting, Jean Kantambu ^a   Blanchard, Angela ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Neighborhood Center Inc   (United States)

^c CORE ^*  (United States)

^d CORE'S advisory board ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community based; Empowerment; Leadership; Learned helplessness; Organization development; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937266584     PISSN: 10705422     EISSN: 15433706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J125v04n03_04     Document Type: Article

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