An Analysis Model for Innovations in Social Services

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Andreas Langer ◽  
Johannes Eurich ◽  
Simon Güntner
10.18060/1952 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-509
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Garner

Since the 1990s, federal policies have allowed public funds to support social services provided through pervasively faith-based organizations (FBOs). Public and academic discourse on these policies tends to be marked by limited data, narrow scope, and the lack of an appropriate analytic framework to adequately consider and critique the merits of the policies, as social workers are compelled to do. The goals of this study are to identify, and preliminarily apply, an established policy analysis model appropriate for use with FBO policy in order to progress discussion. Health service researchers Aday, Begley, Lairson, and Balkrishnan (2004) provide a theoretically based policy analysis framework, which is appropriate for this task and for use by social workers. Their effectiveness, efficiency, and equity policy analysis model is presented along with data and analysis intended to help frame and progress productive discussions on FBO policies within and beyond the profession.


Author(s):  
Brenda Vose ◽  
J. Mitchell Miller ◽  
Stephanie Koskinen

PurposeThis study aims to advance the existing analytic model to include staff allocation information at the district level. Maintaining adequate size of staff is essential to law enforcement agencies' ability to ensure social order, fight crime and, increasingly, deliver a widening range of social services. Review of the scientific literature on police size of force and staffing calculation models indicates that this line of inquiry (i.e. manpower analysis) is attentive to population size and workload demands but generally inattentive to how service demands are affected by community-level variables. Current staffing calculation models specify number of staff needed for a jurisdiction but do not inform the allocation of personnel across districts within the jurisdiction.Design/methodology/approachTo address this problem, the current study illustrates an enhanced analytic model to provide law enforcement staffing recommendations for a southern coastal county. An integrated per capita-workload manpower analysis model first factors the minimum number of law enforcement deputies needed per population size served and recent history workload demands and then executes the six-step workload model process. This study enhances staffing analysis by adding an additional seventh arithmetical step indicating the staffing needs by districts across a jurisdiction.FindingsThe results from the integrated per capita-workload analysis indicate the need to hire additional deputies to meet current and future demands.Originality/valueDiscussion centers on the need to include drivers of police services identified but not measured in this study's application of the hybrid manpower analysis model and its replication potential.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Dewi Saraswati ◽  
Rahesli Humsona

This study aims to describe the social economic changes of teenage prostitution. This research was conducted at the "Wanodyatama" Women's Social Services Institution Surakarta because most of the rehabilitated women were teenagers. The theory used is the theory of social practice according to Bourdieu. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study by the phenomenological method, where a type of research that seeks to describe the socio-economic changes of teenagers prostitution. Sources of data in this study are primary and secondary. Data collection techniques were carried out by means of observation, interviews and documents. Sources of data obtained using purposive sampling technique. The validity data to use data triangulation. The data analysis technique used is an interactive analysis model developed by Miles and Huberman. The results of research that contain facts about teenagers who become prostitute have several factors that habitus, capital and realm. Social changes that occur are changes in the person, social structure, structural functions, relations between different structures, and the emergence of new structures. In addition there are also four components of economic change attended by informants, namely education, social status, income, and income contribution. During the reform of the rehabilitation process at Institution with the approval of the entire set of processes and guidance provided, informants shifted the change in a positive direction because it showed the relationship of services and social improvements intended for prostitute was very useful and beneficial. Self-esteem, self-confidence, social responsibility in carrying out social tasks and most importantly can realize work that has been done is a community disease that must be overcome because work can damage the morale of nation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heikki Mansikka ◽  
Don Harris ◽  
Kai Virtanen

Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the flight-related core competencies for professional airline pilots and to structuralize them as components in a team performance framework. To achieve this, the core competency scores from a total of 2,560 OPC (Operator Proficiency Check) missions were analyzed. A principal component analysis (PCA) of pilots’ performance scores across the different competencies was conducted. Four principal components were extracted and a path analysis model was constructed on the basis of these factors. The path analysis utilizing the core competencies extracted adopted an input–process–output’ (IPO) model of team performance related directly to the activities on the flight deck. The results of the PCA and the path analysis strongly supported the proposed IPO model.


Methodology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 188-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther T. Beierl ◽  
Markus Bühner ◽  
Moritz Heene

Abstract. Factorial validity is often assessed using confirmatory factor analysis. Model fit is commonly evaluated using the cutoff values for the fit indices proposed by Hu and Bentler (1999) . There is a body of research showing that those cutoff values cannot be generalized. Model fit does not only depend on the severity of misspecification, but also on nuisance parameters, which are independent of the misspecification. Using a simulation study, we demonstrate their influence on measures of model fit. We specified a severe misspecification, omitting a second factor, which signifies factorial invalidity. Measures of model fit showed only small misfit because nuisance parameters, magnitude of factor loadings and a balanced/imbalanced number of indicators per factor, also influenced the degree of misfit. Drawing from our results, we discuss challenges in the assessment of factorial validity.


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