Management Skills in Social Care Author:John Harris, Des Kelly The importance of good management practice has been increasingly recognized in the personal social services but this recognition has been slow to materialize in residential and day care settings. Staff in these settings who move on to management face particular difficulties in adapting to their new role because they are often promoted on the bas... more »is of their competence as practitioners. Newly promoted managers in residential and day care settings are all too often ill-equiped for the problems and possibilities offered by their move to a management position. As a practice-based handbook "Management Skills in Social Care" aims to fill this gap by examining key areas of management expertise such as: managing self; individuals; groups; resources; change; to train and so on. The book demonstrates the vital contribution that management can make to the improvement of day-to-day practice in residential and day care settings.« less