What are your short- and long-term professional goals? Do they include moving into a leadership and management position? Transitioning from clinical to administrative roles is not uncommon in social work practice. It is useful, however, to think about relevant skills, knowledge, and professional experiences that will prepare you for the transition. In addition, you should consider the personal benefits and challenges of assuming a leadership role.Post(2 to 3 pages) your thoughts about your future career goals, your interest in moving into leadership or management positions, and the benefits and challenges of a social work administrator’s role.Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.Required ReadingsAustin, M. J., Regan, K., Gothard, S., & Carnochan, S. (2013). Becoming a manager in nonprofit human service organizations: Making the transition from specialist to generalist. Administration in Social Work, 37(4), 372-385.

For this assignment, we’ll take a look at how we develop our criteria measures. First we have to figure out what sort of things the job really involves, then we try to figure out how we might measure how well employees are actually doing those things (i.e., do they have good or bad performance).Describe the performance domain of a university professor–i.e., what do they do? Keep in mind that teaching is actually only a small portion of their job…they teach 3 classes or so at most, so what else do they do to fill up a work week?Propose a criterion (or several criteria) measure to be used in making promotion decisions (i.e., how would you evaluate their performance?)Since you’re going to be making a promotion decision, would it be better to combine a number of criteria into one (i.e., form a composite criterion) or keep them separate (i.e., use multiple criteria)?