Leadership within Human Services Organizations

In the video titled “Introduction to Human Services Administration," the video highlights several issues faced by the human service administrator. For this assignment, I will choose the issue regarding the requirements of becoming a food bank agency as highlighted by Rob Randels. Any group that seeks to be certified as a food bank agency must sign liability releases. It seeks to protect the anonymity of the donor. Moreover, such an agency must be committed to the safekeeping of the foodstuff they collect. The activities and operations of such agency group must be open to scrutiny and monitoring. The agency group must comply with the strict requirement of ensuring that all the collected foodstuffs end to the needy people rather than repackage and sell in a business model. Lastly, the agency is required to adhere to the strict procedure of obtaining the food from the food bank and distributing such food.
The major conceptual framework that corresponds to the human service administration issue discussed above is the structural conceptual framework. The conceptual framework mainly helps in promoting operations towards a specific goal and enhancing the efficiency of operations within an organization (Reamer, 2008). The dictates of the structural conceptual framework perfectly fit with the requirements of the issue raised above. Firstly, the issue raises concerns about compliance with strict procedures. Such procedures are put in place to ensure that the agency meets the goals for which it is set. Secondly, the issue describes the requirement to ensure that the food finally reaches the targeted group of people and addresses the goals of the urgency. Lastly, the issue highlights procedural ways to be followed in ensuring that the food ends to the right people and addresses the efficiency of the process that the agency should employ. Therefore, the issue in question addresses the concerns of efficiency and goals that are pertinent to the conceptual framework.
The most effective leadership style under the structural conceptual framework is the structural leadership style. Such a leadership style is more committed to adopting the structures and strategies that that will aim at creating efficiencies of operations and ensuring that the organization or urgency meets the targeted goals. As such, a strategic leadership style will ensure that the urgency is well prepared to comply with the laid down and required statutory procedures. Moreover, a strategic leadership style will be keen to ensure that the food bank agency has more efficient processes that are equally effective and adequate (Alkahtani, 2016). Therefore, will help immensely in reducing wastage and ensuring that the agency is confined to the objectives for which it is set. Finally, this leadership style will ultimately safeguard the final objectives of the agency.
The conceptual framework greatly dictates the leadership style that an organization will put in place. Reasonably, it puts into perspective the specific issues that an organization is facing and hence makes it easy for the organization to determine the specific leadership style required in an organization. Therefore understanding the conceptual framework of a specific issue that the organization is facing will greatly help the organization to determine the needs of a leadership style and hence determine the style to choose (Corbett & Noyes, 2008). As provided in the case study, the need for effective strategy and goal orientation in the organization constitutes the structural conceptual framework. Later, it dictates the strategic leadership style to addresses it and shows the close fit between the conceptual framework and leadership style employed.


References
Alkahtani, A. H. (2016). The influence of leadership styles on organizational commitment: The moderating effect of Emotional Intelligence. Business and Management Studies, 2(1): 23-35.
Corbett, T., & Noyes, J. L. (2008). Human Services Systems Integration. A conceptual framework. Washington, DC: Institute for Research on Poverty.
Reamer, F. G. (2008). Administrative Challenges. Social Work Today, 8(4): 10-17