title: Tasks in changing the organization from within (COFW).
abstract: This paper, after introducing the reader to some basic components of COFW, attempts to provide for the potential change catalyst in the human services organization more specific guidelines for action than are found in previously published material in this subfield. These guidelines are in the form of tasks--analytical and interactional. The analytical tasks discussed are: (a) goal determination--what the change shall be; (b) resistance assessment--who and what may be potential obstacles to this change; and (c) strategy selection--which guidelines or strategies may be utilized to achieve the change goal. Of the many interactional tasks in an organizational change project, two major ones are presented and explored: (a) developing the action system, and (b) meeting with the administrators for decision making.
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006040:Goals; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009042:Motivation; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*