The Importance of Supervision in Professional Practice in Federations

Publication Date: March 1981

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Louis Levitt

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Leadership; Organizational Development

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author suggests that the unease of Federation executives may be produced by the vulnerability of the Federation professional to lay decision-making as well as the inability to deal with the resultant practice problems openly due to organizational rhetoric; this masks the problem and the essential differances between staff and lay volunteers. Indeed, the Federation field seems to accept without question the job title of executive vice-president which blurs the difference between facilitative staff and decision-making board and makes them one and the same.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.57 no.3, Spring 1981.