Amnon Boehm
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 366677 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amnon Boehm |
| PRENOMES | Amnon |
| SOBRENOME | Boehm |
| ASSINATURA | BOEHM A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Haifa |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A new level of analysis for climate research
The goal of this study was to adopt the concept of climate, which has been researched extensively in the context of organizational psychology, to the study of communities and develop a scale for community climate of involvement. We demonstrate that communities can constitute a valid level of analysis for the study of climate. The scale development was done in two steps: Step 1, a qualitative investigation of 39 geographical community members, fou…
Political Involvement of Social Workers in Majority and Minority Groups
Previous research has examined the political involvement of social workers and their encouragement of their clients to be politically active. However, few studies have investigated this topic by comparing minority and majority groups. The current research focused on the political involvement of social workers themselves, their encouragement of clients to be politically involved, and the types of political involvement they engage in. Differences i…
National Culture of Indulgence as Predictor of Prosocial Behavior
Previous studies of national culture and prosocial behaviors have been limited to Hofstede’s five traditional culture dimensions. We introduce the fairly new and less studied cultural dimension of indulgence versus restraint (IVR) as a predictor of prosocial behaviors. We tested the effect of IVR on prosocial behavior over Hofstede’s previously studied dimensions. We also tested the moderating effect of government effectiveness on the relationshi…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 45 No. 2
The research focused on two aspects of political involvement among social workers.The first was the direct political involvement of social workers on behalf of their clients, and the second, the social workers' encouragement of their clients' involvement in political activity.The main purpose of the research was to identify the factors that explain these two types of political involvement among social workers.The data were collected by means of a…
Social Workers and Politics
The research focused on two aspects of political involvement among social workers. The first was the direct political involvement of social workers on behalf of their clients, and the second, the social workers’ encouragement of their clients’ involvement in political activity. The main purpose of the research was to identify the factors that explain these two types of political involvement among social workers. The data were collected by means o…
Parental involvement among Jewish and Arab parents
Religious Attendance and Volunteering
Numerous studies have documented the importance of religion, and especially of religious congregational attendance, in regard to volunteering. Most of these studies focus on individual and contextual factors, usually within one country. Recent studies suggest that the association between religious attendance and volunteering varies among countries. We hypothesize that national culture plays an important role in explaining volunteering mainly as a…
The Effect of a Community Project on Sense of Community among Social Work Students
This article evaluates the effect of a community project that was adopted by the students of a school of social work in Israel. A quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design was used. The pretest was administered during the planning stage of the project and the posttest a year later, during the implementation period. The findings show a significant positive effect of the project on sense of community among the students. This effect was moderated b…
Clients and Social Workers' Perceptions of Social Work
Journal Article Clients and Social Workers' Perceptions of Social Work: An Israeli Case Study Get access Amnon Boehm Amnon Boehm * Amnon Boehm is Associate Professor and Chair of Community Practice in the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel. His recent research projects are in the areas of community resilience, social marketing, community practice intervention in crisis situations, community and organisational leadership, and commu…
Towards a Practice-based Model for Community Practice
Careful examination of the literature of community practice shows that existing community practice models do not adequately respond to the unique and changing needs of various communities. This article provides an alternative model that challenges the existing models. Based on extensive content analysis of the literature and practice knowledge, this alternative model offers sufficient flexibility to adapt to any particular community. The model is…
Expectations of Grassroots Community Leadership in Times of Normality and Crisis
The article compares the preferences of community members for the transformational and transactional leadership styles of grassroots leaders at times of normality with those during a crisis. A structured questionnaire was administered to members of a community that experienced security crises on the Lebanese border of Israel before the 2006 Lebanon War. It reveals differences in the dominance of preferred leadership styles depending on the type o…
University involvement in social planning
The paper develops a descriptive model of different aspects of involvement by academic staff in social planning; for example, involvement in different stages of planning, level of influencing decision-making processes, and involvement in development and action roles for promoting change. Using a structured questionnaire, research conducted in Israel compared the attitudes of 178 university academic staff members and 128 staff members of community…
The functions of social service workers at a time of war against a civilian population
This article identifies the nature of functions that social service workers employed by municipal organisations have to perform during a community disaster and subsequent reorganisation at a time of war. The article also explores to what extent the functions of workers change as a result of the transition from a peacetime routine to a war situation. Using focus groups the study assesses the knowledge of social service workers and ordinary citizen…
Business Social Responsibility
This article compares the attitudes of social workers and business employees regarding the community involvement of businesses and the role of social workers in this involvement. The study, based on a structured questionnaire, was conducted in Israel and consisted of 316 participants from two cohorts: social workers and business employees. The principal findings show that social workers are more inclined than business employees to recommend that …
Effectiveness of Welfare Organizations
Numerous recent studies reveal the contribution of leadership and leadership style, in particular, to effectiveness in different organizations (Sosik et al., 1998; Ogbnna and Harris, 2000; Hoyt and Blascovich, 2003; Hullinger, 2003; Berson and Avolio, 2004), including the field of welfare organizations (Gummer, 1995; Arches, 1997; Fisher, 2005; Mary, 2005). These publications suggest a preference for the transformational, compared with the transa…
Immigrant Participation in Decision‐Making Processes at the Local Level
The issue of new immigrants' participation in policymaking and planning processes at the local level has not been adequately addressed. On the basis of qualitative research, the article examines a variety of different characteristics of immigrant participation in policymaking and planning in Israel. In particular, the research investigates aspects of participation, such as level of influence and typical tactics, of immigrant leaders from the Comm…
The Involvement of Social Workers in Fundraising
Despite growing interest in fundraising as part of the social worker's role, there has been no comprehensive research on this subject. The purpose of the present research is to begin to bridge that gap. Five dimensions of fundraising are defined and a theoretical framework, comprised of factors that may be related to social workers' involvement in this activity, is developed. Data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, administere…
How Using a Marketing Approach Helps Social Work Students to Develop Community Projects Successfully
With only one academic year in which to develop a community project, social work students can hardly gain the experience they need in this field, while providing their clients with a suitable service. The present study investigates the relationship between implementation of the marketing approach and the successful execution of a community project. Four aspects of this issue are probed: adherence to the programme implementation plan, the programm…
Participation Strategies of Activist-Volunteers in the Life Cycle of Community Crisis
Journal Article Participation Strategies of Activist‐Volunteers in the Life Cycle of Community Crisis Get access Amnon Boehm Amnon Boehm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 51–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/32.1.51 Published: 01 January 2002 Article history Accepted: 01 October 2000 Published: 01 January 2002
The Functions of the Social Worker in Empowering
The term "empowerment" has been conceptualized extensively by theorists. Common literature, however, has largely ignored the consumer's and practitioner's point of view. This study examined how consumers and social workers conceptualize empowerment. To this end, 20 focus groups, 12 of consumers (single parents, teenagers, elderly and activists) and eight of social workers serving each of the four categories of consumers were examined. The finding…
Politically oriented social work intervention
This article discusses the influence of attitude toward national politics on social work intervention. Although national political affairs seem irrelevant to social work intervention, they are sometimes crucial, especially when foreign policy affects physical and mental existence, such as in the US during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East, in Hong Kong and in the former republic of Yugoslavia. Avoiding overt discussions on political issues can …
Measuring Rational and Organizational-Political Planning Activities of Community Organization Workers
Social planning in community organization work reflects two dominant planning styles-a rational style and an organizational-political style. Drawing upon literature from related disciplines, this article describes the development of an expert test that identified indices for the measurement of rational planning activity on the one hand, and organizational-political planning activity on the other. These indices were then applied to investigate the…
Planning for Community Crisis
The article is based on an examination of a nominal group procedure of two welfare agencies located on the confrontation line between Lebanon and Israel, which implemented a marketing approach in planning intervention for the population for times of community crisis. The agencies are located at a place that was attacked and suffered personal and property loss particularly by short range missiles. In the nominal group procedure, five elements of t…
The Functions of the Social Worker in Empowering
The term "empowerment" has been conceptualized extensively by theorists. Common literature, however, has largely ignored the consumer's and practitioner's point of view. This study examined how consumers and social workers conceptualize empowerment. To this end, 20 focus groups, 12 of consumers (single parents, teenagers, elderly and activists) and eight of social workers serving each of the four categories of consumers were examined. The finding…
Politically oriented social work intervention
This article discusses the influence of attitude toward national politics on social work intervention. Although national political affairs seem irrelevant to social work intervention, they are sometimes crucial, especially when foreign policy affects physical and mental existence, such as in the US during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East, in Hong Kong and in the former republic of Yugoslavia. Avoiding overt discussions on political issues can …
Towards a Practice-based Model for Community Practice
Careful examination of the literature of community practice shows that existing community practice models do not adequately respond to the unique and changing needs of various communities. This article provides an alternative model that challenges the existing models. Based on extensive content analysis of the literature and practice knowledge, this alternative model offers sufficient flexibility to adapt to any particular community. The model is…
Participation Strategies of Activist-Volunteers in the Life Cycle of Community Crisis
Journal Article Participation Strategies of Activist‐Volunteers in the Life Cycle of Community Crisis Get access Amnon Boehm Amnon Boehm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 51–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/32.1.51 Published: 01 January 2002 Article history Accepted: 01 October 2000 Published: 01 January 2002
Political Involvement of Social Workers in Majority and Minority Groups
Previous research has examined the political involvement of social workers and their encouragement of their clients to be politically active. However, few studies have investigated this topic by comparing minority and majority groups. The current research focused on the political involvement of social workers themselves, their encouragement of clients to be politically involved, and the types of political involvement they engage in. Differences i…
Clients and Social Workers' Perceptions of Social Work
Journal Article Clients and Social Workers' Perceptions of Social Work: An Israeli Case Study Get access Amnon Boehm Amnon Boehm * Amnon Boehm is Associate Professor and Chair of Community Practice in the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel. His recent research projects are in the areas of community resilience, social marketing, community practice intervention in crisis situations, community and organisational leadership, and commu…
Social Workers and Politics
The research focused on two aspects of political involvement among social workers. The first was the direct political involvement of social workers on behalf of their clients, and the second, the social workers’ encouragement of their clients’ involvement in political activity. The main purpose of the research was to identify the factors that explain these two types of political involvement among social workers. The data were collected by means o…
Effectiveness of Welfare Organizations
Numerous recent studies reveal the contribution of leadership and leadership style, in particular, to effectiveness in different organizations (Sosik et al., 1998; Ogbnna and Harris, 2000; Hoyt and Blascovich, 2003; Hullinger, 2003; Berson and Avolio, 2004), including the field of welfare organizations (Gummer, 1995; Arches, 1997; Fisher, 2005; Mary, 2005). These publications suggest a preference for the transformational, compared with the transa…
Measuring Rational and Organizational-Political Planning Activities of Community Organization Workers
Social planning in community organization work reflects two dominant planning styles-a rational style and an organizational-political style. Drawing upon literature from related disciplines, this article describes the development of an expert test that identified indices for the measurement of rational planning activity on the one hand, and organizational-political planning activity on the other. These indices were then applied to investigate the…
Religious Attendance and Volunteering
Numerous studies have documented the importance of religion, and especially of religious congregational attendance, in regard to volunteering. Most of these studies focus on individual and contextual factors, usually within one country. Recent studies suggest that the association between religious attendance and volunteering varies among countries. We hypothesize that national culture plays an important role in explaining volunteering mainly as a…
Parental involvement among Jewish and Arab parents
The functions of social service workers at a time of war against a civilian population
This article identifies the nature of functions that social service workers employed by municipal organisations have to perform during a community disaster and subsequent reorganisation at a time of war. The article also explores to what extent the functions of workers change as a result of the transition from a peacetime routine to a war situation. Using focus groups the study assesses the knowledge of social service workers and ordinary citizen…
How Using a Marketing Approach Helps Social Work Students to Develop Community Projects Successfully
With only one academic year in which to develop a community project, social work students can hardly gain the experience they need in this field, while providing their clients with a suitable service. The present study investigates the relationship between implementation of the marketing approach and the successful execution of a community project. Four aspects of this issue are probed: adherence to the programme implementation plan, the programm…
A new level of analysis for climate research
The goal of this study was to adopt the concept of climate, which has been researched extensively in the context of organizational psychology, to the study of communities and develop a scale for community climate of involvement. We demonstrate that communities can constitute a valid level of analysis for the study of climate. The scale development was done in two steps: Step 1, a qualitative investigation of 39 geographical community members, fou…
National Culture of Indulgence as Predictor of Prosocial Behavior
Previous studies of national culture and prosocial behaviors have been limited to Hofstede’s five traditional culture dimensions. We introduce the fairly new and less studied cultural dimension of indulgence versus restraint (IVR) as a predictor of prosocial behaviors. We tested the effect of IVR on prosocial behavior over Hofstede’s previously studied dimensions. We also tested the moderating effect of government effectiveness on the relationshi…
The Effect of a Community Project on Sense of Community among Social Work Students
This article evaluates the effect of a community project that was adopted by the students of a school of social work in Israel. A quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design was used. The pretest was administered during the planning stage of the project and the posttest a year later, during the implementation period. The findings show a significant positive effect of the project on sense of community among the students. This effect was moderated b…
The Involvement of Social Workers in Fundraising
Despite growing interest in fundraising as part of the social worker's role, there has been no comprehensive research on this subject. The purpose of the present research is to begin to bridge that gap. Five dimensions of fundraising are defined and a theoretical framework, comprised of factors that may be related to social workers' involvement in this activity, is developed. Data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, administere…
Planning for Community Crisis
The article is based on an examination of a nominal group procedure of two welfare agencies located on the confrontation line between Lebanon and Israel, which implemented a marketing approach in planning intervention for the population for times of community crisis. The agencies are located at a place that was attacked and suffered personal and property loss particularly by short range missiles. In the nominal group procedure, five elements of t…
Measuring Rational and Organizational-Political Planning Activities of Community Organization Workers
Social planning in community organization work reflects two dominant planning styles-a rational style and an organizational-political style. Drawing upon literature from related disciplines, this article describes the development of an expert test that identified indices for the measurement of rational planning activity on the one hand, and organizational-political planning activity on the other. These indices were then applied to investigate the…
Politically oriented social work intervention
This article discusses the influence of attitude toward national politics on social work intervention. Although national political affairs seem irrelevant to social work intervention, they are sometimes crucial, especially when foreign policy affects physical and mental existence, such as in the US during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East, in Hong Kong and in the former republic of Yugoslavia. Avoiding overt discussions on political issues can …
Participation Strategies of Activist-Volunteers in the Life Cycle of Community Crisis
Journal Article Participation Strategies of Activist‐Volunteers in the Life Cycle of Community Crisis Get access Amnon Boehm Amnon Boehm Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 51–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/32.1.51 Published: 01 January 2002 Article history Accepted: 01 October 2000 Published: 01 January 2002
The Functions of the Social Worker in Empowering
The term "empowerment" has been conceptualized extensively by theorists. Common literature, however, has largely ignored the consumer's and practitioner's point of view. This study examined how consumers and social workers conceptualize empowerment. To this end, 20 focus groups, 12 of consumers (single parents, teenagers, elderly and activists) and eight of social workers serving each of the four categories of consumers were examined. The finding…
How Using a Marketing Approach Helps Social Work Students to Develop Community Projects Successfully
With only one academic year in which to develop a community project, social work students can hardly gain the experience they need in this field, while providing their clients with a suitable service. The present study investigates the relationship between implementation of the marketing approach and the successful execution of a community project. Four aspects of this issue are probed: adherence to the programme implementation plan, the programm…
The Involvement of Social Workers in Fundraising
Despite growing interest in fundraising as part of the social worker's role, there has been no comprehensive research on this subject. The purpose of the present research is to begin to bridge that gap. Five dimensions of fundraising are defined and a theoretical framework, comprised of factors that may be related to social workers' involvement in this activity, is developed. Data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, administere…
Immigrant Participation in Decision‐Making Processes at the Local Level
The issue of new immigrants' participation in policymaking and planning processes at the local level has not been adequately addressed. On the basis of qualitative research, the article examines a variety of different characteristics of immigrant participation in policymaking and planning in Israel. In particular, the research investigates aspects of participation, such as level of influence and typical tactics, of immigrant leaders from the Comm…
Business Social Responsibility
This article compares the attitudes of social workers and business employees regarding the community involvement of businesses and the role of social workers in this involvement. The study, based on a structured questionnaire, was conducted in Israel and consisted of 316 participants from two cohorts: social workers and business employees. The principal findings show that social workers are more inclined than business employees to recommend that …
Effectiveness of Welfare Organizations
Numerous recent studies reveal the contribution of leadership and leadership style, in particular, to effectiveness in different organizations (Sosik et al., 1998; Ogbnna and Harris, 2000; Hoyt and Blascovich, 2003; Hullinger, 2003; Berson and Avolio, 2004), including the field of welfare organizations (Gummer, 1995; Arches, 1997; Fisher, 2005; Mary, 2005). These publications suggest a preference for the transformational, compared with the transa…
Expectations of Grassroots Community Leadership in Times of Normality and Crisis
The article compares the preferences of community members for the transformational and transactional leadership styles of grassroots leaders at times of normality with those during a crisis. A structured questionnaire was administered to members of a community that experienced security crises on the Lebanese border of Israel before the 2006 Lebanon War. It reveals differences in the dominance of preferred leadership styles depending on the type o…
University involvement in social planning
The paper develops a descriptive model of different aspects of involvement by academic staff in social planning; for example, involvement in different stages of planning, level of influencing decision-making processes, and involvement in development and action roles for promoting change. Using a structured questionnaire, research conducted in Israel compared the attitudes of 178 university academic staff members and 128 staff members of community…
The functions of social service workers at a time of war against a civilian population
This article identifies the nature of functions that social service workers employed by municipal organisations have to perform during a community disaster and subsequent reorganisation at a time of war. The article also explores to what extent the functions of workers change as a result of the transition from a peacetime routine to a war situation. Using focus groups the study assesses the knowledge of social service workers and ordinary citizen…
Towards a Practice-based Model for Community Practice
Careful examination of the literature of community practice shows that existing community practice models do not adequately respond to the unique and changing needs of various communities. This article provides an alternative model that challenges the existing models. Based on extensive content analysis of the literature and practice knowledge, this alternative model offers sufficient flexibility to adapt to any particular community. The model is…
Clients and Social Workers' Perceptions of Social Work
Journal Article Clients and Social Workers' Perceptions of Social Work: An Israeli Case Study Get access Amnon Boehm Amnon Boehm * Amnon Boehm is Associate Professor and Chair of Community Practice in the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel. His recent research projects are in the areas of community resilience, social marketing, community practice intervention in crisis situations, community and organisational leadership, and commu…
The Effect of a Community Project on Sense of Community among Social Work Students
This article evaluates the effect of a community project that was adopted by the students of a school of social work in Israel. A quasi-experimental pretest–posttest design was used. The pretest was administered during the planning stage of the project and the posttest a year later, during the implementation period. The findings show a significant positive effect of the project on sense of community among the students. This effect was moderated b…
Religious Attendance and Volunteering
Numerous studies have documented the importance of religion, and especially of religious congregational attendance, in regard to volunteering. Most of these studies focus on individual and contextual factors, usually within one country. Recent studies suggest that the association between religious attendance and volunteering varies among countries. We hypothesize that national culture plays an important role in explaining volunteering mainly as a…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 45 No. 2
The research focused on two aspects of political involvement among social workers.The first was the direct political involvement of social workers on behalf of their clients, and the second, the social workers' encouragement of their clients' involvement in political activity.The main purpose of the research was to identify the factors that explain these two types of political involvement among social workers.The data were collected by means of a…
Social Workers and Politics
The research focused on two aspects of political involvement among social workers. The first was the direct political involvement of social workers on behalf of their clients, and the second, the social workers’ encouragement of their clients’ involvement in political activity. The main purpose of the research was to identify the factors that explain these two types of political involvement among social workers. The data were collected by means o…
Parental involvement among Jewish and Arab parents
National Culture of Indulgence as Predictor of Prosocial Behavior
Previous studies of national culture and prosocial behaviors have been limited to Hofstede’s five traditional culture dimensions. We introduce the fairly new and less studied cultural dimension of indulgence versus restraint (IVR) as a predictor of prosocial behaviors. We tested the effect of IVR on prosocial behavior over Hofstede’s previously studied dimensions. We also tested the moderating effect of government effectiveness on the relationshi…
Political Involvement of Social Workers in Majority and Minority Groups
Previous research has examined the political involvement of social workers and their encouragement of their clients to be politically active. However, few studies have investigated this topic by comparing minority and majority groups. The current research focused on the political involvement of social workers themselves, their encouragement of clients to be politically involved, and the types of political involvement they engage in. Differences i…
A new level of analysis for climate research
The goal of this study was to adopt the concept of climate, which has been researched extensively in the context of organizational psychology, to the study of communities and develop a scale for community climate of involvement. We demonstrate that communities can constitute a valid level of analysis for the study of climate. The scale development was done in two steps: Step 1, a qualitative investigation of 39 geographical community members, fou…
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