- Social work profession support in the management
- The social work professions support the management in several ways. First the National Association of Social Workers standard helps in performing case management procedures. These standards help in enhancing developmental, problem-solving ability in an organization. This in turn help in ensuring that there is teamwork in an organization. The standard outlined in this professional association also help in creating and promoting effective human resource operation systems. This therefore helps in ensuring that the human resource department continues to offer high quality services to the employee in an organization. Most importantly theses standard help in linking people within an organization with the resources, services and the opportunity available.
- Moreover, the NASW also help in improving the scope and various capacity of the delivery system. This in turn helps in ensuring that the business continues to improve on its profitability. In addition these standards also help in improvement and development of the social policies. These social policies therefore help to ensure that the entire workforce work as team in ensuring that the organization achieves their goal. The social workers in an organization also help in assessing the client’s needs and determining the programs that the he or she needs. This therefore helps in ensuring that the workers are happy and enjoy working in the organization. In addition most of the social workers also have the ability to work with many people in different setting. This can therefore help to ensure that they address the various challenges that affect the workers in an organization supporting the management.
- According to Patti (2003) the intellectual leadership for the human resource services should actually come from the social work (Andrew Germak & Karu Singh 2009). This therefore implies that the management of an organization needs to ensure that the embrace the social work principles in the management. This can help in ensuring that the management is able to incorporate social activities that support the welfare of the worker. It is also evident that the social workers can help in improving the time management skills among the workers in an organization (Hepworth, 2010). Improvement of the time management skills can help to ensure that the management is able to achieve its objective within the specified time. Moreover, the social workers help in ensuring that the management implements transparent systems to manage the workload in the organization. This in turn helps to ensure that the workers are protected from over exploitation from the management.
- Social workers also help in supporting the management since they are involved in managing substance abuse in an organization. This in turn help in ensuring that the management is able to help the workers who deal with substance abuse and therefore ensure that the entire workforce are committed towards ensuring that they deliver quality services to the organization. In addition, the social workers also help in managing the crisis in an organization. This helps in improving the working relation between the management and the entire workforce. Most importantly the social workers case manager helps in formulating the various procedures that need to be followed when solving certain cases in an organization. Moreover the social worker case manager also helps in coordinating to the delivery of direct services to the client and their families. This therefore helps to ensure that the workers are comfortable in both homes and workplace.
- References
- Andrew J. Germak & Karun K. Singh (2009): Social Entrepreneurship: Changing
- the Way Social Workers Do Business, Administration in Social Work, 34:1, 79-95
- Hepworth, D. H. (2010). Direct social work practice: Theory and skills. Belmont, Calif: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
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