Biography

Prof. John E. Tropman

University of Michigan, USA

Professor


Email: Tropman@umich.edu


Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Social Work and Sociology

M.A., University of Chicago, Social Service Administration

B.S., Oberlin College, Sociology


Publications (Selected)

  1. McBeath, B., Mosley, J., Hopkins, K., Guerrero, E., Austin, M., & Tropman, J. (2019). Building knowledge to support human service organizational and management practice: An agenda to address the research-to-practice gap. Social work research, 43(2), 115-128.
  2. Tropman, J. (2018). An Appreciative Reflection on the Guest Editorial “Developing Policy and Management Leaders: Eight Social Work Policy Fellows Share Their Experiences, Case Studies, and Recommendations for Leadership Development”. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 42(4), 432-434.
  3. Tropman, J., & Nicklett, E. (2016). Talcott Parsons: A Voice from the Past, an Opportunity Missed, and a Road Not Taken. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 22(1), 79-95.
  4. Tillotson, A. R., & Tropman, J. (2014). Early responders, late responders, and non-responders: The principal-agent problem in board oversight of nonprofit CEOs. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 38(4), 374-393.
  5. Tropman, J., & Wooten, L. P. (2013). The 7C approach to conceptualizing administration: Executive leadership in the 21st century. Administration in Social Work, 37(4), 325-328.
  6. Tropman, J., & Nicklett, E. (2012). Balancing the budget through social exploitation: Why hard times are even harder for some. Advances in applied sociology, 2(2), 111.
  7. Gonzalez, R. P., Faller, K. C., Ortega, R. M., & Tropman, J. (2009). Exit interviews with departed child welfare workers: Preliminary findings. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 3(1), 40-63.
  8. Stotzer, R. L., & Tropman, J. E. (2006). Professionalizing social work at the national level: Women social work leaders, 1910-1982. Affilia, 21(1), 9-27.
  9. Tropman, J. E., & Shaefer, H. L. (2004). Flameout at the top—Executive calamity in the nonprofit sector: Its precursors and sequelae. Administration in Social Work, 28(3-4), 161-182.
  10. Tropman, J. E. (1989). The organizational circle: A new approach to drawing an organizational chart. Administration in Social Work, 13(1), 35-44.
  11. Tropman, J. E. (1989). Human service entrepreneurship: The four" C" approach. Administration in Social Work, 13(3-4), 219-242.
  12. Tropman, J. E. (1987). Effective meetings: Some provisional rules and needed research. Social Work with Groups, 10(2), 41-55.


Profile Details

WoS ResearcherID: GFT-5371-2022

https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/emeritus/tropman

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-tropman-a243155

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Tropman

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