Explore the website of the Child Protective Service agency for your state. Find articles on CPS from your state that discuss organizational issues or dysfunctions regarding the agency at a macro level. This assignment examines the functions and dysfunctions of organizational structure. Based on instructor feedback, use Topic 6: Macro Level Social Work: Child Protective Services and Bureaucracy Outline Worksheet (attached) to complete an 800-1,000-word synthesis and analysis of CPS based on the following:
1. How does Weber's theory relative to organizational structure, division of labor, and roles apply to CPS?
2. Discuss the organizational development of CPS from a systems theory perspective.
3. What are your recommendations for improving the CPS system at a macro level?
Use the examples from your local or state articles on CPS to support concepts from each of the organizational theories. Include at least three additional references on CPS as an organizational bureaucracy (macro level not micro level).
Question
1. Describe three to four examples from New York State articles on CPS to support concepts from each of the organizational theories.
2. Explore two websites of agencies that CPS collaborates with and discuss the services that those agencies provide that support the state's CPS organization.
3. Explore two websites and discuss how the different organizations address diversity.
4. How would you address ethics and diversity in your chosen role? How would you support the organizations diversity policies or initiatives?
5. What are the functions of CPS as a bureaucracy? Use Weber's theory.
6. What are the dysfunctions of CPS as a bureaucracy? Use Weber's theory.
7. How would you apply systems theory to CPS?
8. What suggestions do you have for improving large bureaucratic agencies such as CPS?