Core Competencies and Practice Behaviors

By the completion of the advanced specialization level, social enterprise administration students learn to:
 

1. Identify as a professional social worker and conduct themselves accordingly.
    
   1. Display professionalism and respect for stakeholders including client systems, colleagues, partners, communities and organizations.
       
       
2. Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
    
   1. Identify and analyze the ethical and value dilemmas as they arise within or across systems.
   2. Engage in the development and critique of management functions and service delivery that upholds ethical standards and social work values.
       
       
3. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
    
   1. Critically evaluate data in the context of the organization or community, pertaining to management issues to inform decision making.
       
       
4. Engage diversity and difference in practice.
    
   1. Identify issues related to race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, age and country of origin that may impact the development and execution of practices within an SEA context.
   2. Consider and address management practices related to social and structural inequities from an inclusive perspective.
       
       
5. Advance human rights and social and economic justice.
    
   1. Analyze, design, implement and/or evaluate programs to include the standpoints of non-dominant culture, racial, gender, and economic groups, and the clients directly served by the programs.
       
       
6. Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
    
   1. Utilize evidence-based practice and other practice and research-based evidence in the design and/or implementation of social and community programs and agency management.
       
       
7. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
    
   1. Synthesize and differentially apply theories and/or research of human development and social environments to guide SEA practice.
       
       
8. Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
    
   1. Articulate the relationship between social policy, organizational structures and the interests of all stakeholders and the impact on the organization and implementation of social programs.
   2. Design and implement social programs that respond to the social and economic needs of stakeholders through diverse innovative methods utilizing an entrepreneurial lens.
       
       
9. Respond to contexts that shape practice.
    
   1. Effectively negotiate ethical, political and other contextual issues involved in design, implementation or evaluation of management processes, programs, organizations and/or social services.
       
       
10. (a) Engage, (b) assess, (c) intervene, and (d) evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
     
     
    1. Engagement
        
       1. Engage with staff members, community constituents and/or organizations and their representatives.
           
           
    2. Assessment
        
       1. Assess the development and performance of employee, organizational or community functioning.
           
           
    3. Intervention
        
       1. Plan, design, or manage social agencies and enterprises at the individual program level, the agency/organizational level and the system level.
           
           
    4. Evaluation
        
       1. Evaluate social programs.