Laimutė Žalimienė

Biographic Data

ID4133626
NAMELaimutė Žalimienė
GIVEN NAMESLaimutė
FAMILY NAMEŽalimienė
SIGNATUREŽALIMIENĖ L
AFFILIATIONSVilnius University
ORCID0000-0003-0445-4643
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Asmeninės socialinės paslaugos išorinių grėsmių kontekste: Socialinės sistemos atsparumo analizės rėmai

    Open AccessLaimutė Žalimienė, Eugenijus Dunajevas et al.ARTICLEFilosofija. Sociologija2024

    Egzistencinės grėsmės, tokios kaip pandemija, karas, neteisėta migracija, priskirtinos didelio poveikio grėsmėms, nes destabilizuoja gerovės sistemas, kelia pavojų valstybės saugumui ir visuomenės sanglaudai. Grėsmių poveikį pirmieji pajunta socialiai pažeidžiami žmonės, todėl socialinės pagalbos sistemos turi transformuotis, kad atlieptų naujai atsiradusių pažeidžiamų grupių poreikius. Straipsnyje, remiantis literatūros analize, gilinamasi į sis…

  • Yes or No? What do Lithuanian unemployed young people think about employment in elderly care sector

    Open AccessLaima Okuneviciute Neverauskiene, Laimutė Žalimienė et al.ARTICLERevista Calitatea Vieții2024

    The aim of the research is to investigate unemployed young people’s opinions about work and the workplace in the elderly care sector in Lithuania. The key theoretical concepts of the study are public service motivation (PSM), work meaningfulness and gendered approaches. Quantitative research methodology was chosen to gather the empirical data. The respondents of the survey, which was carried out in 2022, were young unemployed people (aged 18–29) …

  • Envisioning the future of (techno) social work education: Perspectives of Japanese and Lithuanian social work educators

    Donata Petružytė, Violeta Gevorgianienė et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2023

    The aim of the article is to present the perceptions of social work educators from Lithuania and Japan, on the role of technologies in the development of the profession. Qualitative research was based on 18 interviews. The place of technologies in the social work profession and the implications that these technologies may have on social work values, knowledge, skills and SW identity are discussed from the perspective of B. Latour, specifically, h…

  • Wor(l)ds struggle against wor(l)ds: Public discourse around children's removal from families in Lithuania

    Open AccessEglė Šumskienė, Jūratė Charenkova et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2023

  • Youth Preferences for Workplace Characteristics and What Could Elderly Care Sector Suggest in This Case

    Open AccessLaima Okuneviciute Neverauskiene, Laimutė Žalimienė et al.ARTICLEFilosofija. Sociologija2021

    The article seeks to answer the question: What are the opportunities and preconditions in the future for having more young workforce in the care sector for the elderly? The article analyses the requirements for a job in general and specifically for work in the care sector for the elderly, and compares whether the working conditions and the nature of work in this sector meet these needs. The analysis revealed that there is a significant mismatch b…

  • Navigating the context of uncertainty in child protection practice

    Laimutė Žalimienė, Violeta Gevorgianienė et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Child Welfare2021References: 11

    This article offers a conceptual framework within a decision-making (DM) context in situations, when child protection workers have to decide to either remove a child from his or her parents care or leave him or her in a family. Based on the thematic analysis of data from the 33 interviews, we have developed the concept of DM context as a space of uncertainty which is multilayered and implies an inherent duality of each contextual element. The stu…

  • Manifestations of Institutional Aggression in the Practice of Child Protection Workers

    Open AccessLaimutė Žalimienė, Violeta Gevorgianienė et al.ARTICLEFilosofija. Sociologija2020

    Studies show that practice in some professional fields may be socially and morally unattractive: employees working with stigmatized groups have to use methods, related to aggression and confrontation, which leads to stress and reduces their professional well-being. This applies to child rights and protection institutions which have a responsibility to take a child out of the family in the case of a threat to their safety. Problems related to work…

  • What type of familialism is relevant for Lithuania? The case of elderly care

    Laimutė Žalimienė, Inga Blaziene et al.ARTICLEJournal of Baltic Studies2020References: 16

    In Lithuania, elderly care is still strongly reliant upon the informal sector, while recent efforts to develop a policy of de-familialism using welfare state arrangements have so far been very vague. This article uses the concept of familialism to assess whether the infrastructure of elderly care services and labor market measures developed in the country are adequate in the light of social-demographic changes taking place in the country and the …

  • Lankomosios priežiūros darbuotojų darbo vietos kokybė Lietuvoje

    Open AccessLaimutė Žalimienė, Inga Blaziene et al.ARTICLEFilosofija. Sociologija2017

    Straipsnyje siekiama įvertinti pagalbos namuose paslaugas teikiančių darbuotojų darbo vietos kokybę Lietuvoje ir išryškinti veiksnius, kurie leistų šią kokybę pagerinti – tai ypač aktualu didėjant šių paslaugų poreikiui tiek visoje Europos Sąjungoje (toliau – ES), tiek Lietuvoje. Apžvelgiamos darbo vietos kokybės tendencijos globos sektoriuje ES šalyse, aptariama teorinė darbo vietos kokybės samprata bei jos pagrindu analizuojami 2016 m. Lietuvoj…

  • Between User’s Expectations and Provider’s Quality of Work: The Future of Elderly Care in Lithuania

    Open AccessInga Blaziene, Laimutė ŽalimienėARTICLEJournal of Population Ageing2017References: 5

  • Socialinės gerovės garantijų svarba mokslininko profesijos pasirinkimui: Lietuvos doktorantų atvejo analizė

    Open AccessLaimutė Žalimienė, Viginta Ivaškaitė-TamošiūnėARTICLEFilosofija. Sociologija2010

    Šiame straipsnyje analizuojama socialinės gerovės garantijų svarba mokslininko profesijos pasirinkimui, kadangi, remiantis gerovės kapitalizmo prieiga, socialinės gerovės garantijos gali būti traktuojamos kaip svarbi priemonė, užtikrinanti mokslo sferos aprūpinimą ar papildymą kvalifikuota darbo jėga. Empirinėje straipsnio dalyje remiamasi 2008 m. atlikta Lietuvos doktorantų anketine apklausa, skirta išsiaiškinti doktorantųpožiūrį į jiems teikiam…