... significant work experience in social welfare organizations and who were interested in becomingprogram managers and executives. And in part, this development in so-cial work reflected the barriers facing ... tasks. Since the 1970s, the curriculum in many of the grad-uate schools of social work has also included a minor, but distinct, cur-riculum track dealing with management practice (Austin 1995, ... education programs—business administration, public administration, and educational admin-istration. In part, this development in social work was also shaped by thecareer interests of persons...