Motivation, social work and immigration

Job satisfaction according to a qualitative and quantitative evaluation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9974727
AutoresAgustín Godás Otero (0000-0002-1165-5702, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, autor de correspondencia), Anaïs Quiroga-Carrillo (0000-0002-0705-8921, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Gabriela Míguez Salina (0000-0002-3703-1543, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), Jesica Núñez García (0000-0002-6573-8933, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Año2022
Volumen66
Número2
Páginas419-432
Fecha de publicación2022-02-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00208728211065709
OpenAlexW4210552343
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas26

This research is aimed at examining the motivational elements that the social worker specialised in immigration considers as determinants of their job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. An instrument was designed and validated to collect these perceptions in quantitative and qualitative terms, among a sample composed of 100 social services professionals from 43 localities in Galicia, Spain. The findings report that, while labour satisfaction is associated with intrinsic aspects of their job (such as personal self-fulfilment and constant contact with clients), the main sources of dissatisfaction relate to organisational and extrinsic work aspects (like workload, lack of support or excess of bureaucracy)

Bureaucracy · Immigration · Job satisfaction · Management · Perception · Political science · Qualitative research · Sample (material · Sociology · Work (physics · Work motivation · Workload · Applied Psychology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Sciences and Policies · Stress and Burnout Research