ABSTRACT
Increasingly there is consensus in the literature on social welfare management that social service administration differs in significant ways from general administration and hence requires a particular type of educational preparation (Hasenfeld & English, 1974; Patti, 1983 ; Steiner, 1977). Having agreed that social service administrators need to be educated in a fashion that differs from that of the general administrator, there is much disagreement concerning the form that education for social welfare management should take (Perlmutter, 1984). Even if a consensus could be reached concerning the ideal curriculum for students interested in social administration, it is not clear that this would have a significant impact upon the way programs are managed as the administrators of most human service organizations are direct service workers who have been promoted into supervisory positions (Patti, 1983).
