Ethical Decision-Making of Social Workers' Associations

A Case Study of the Israeli Association of Social Workers' Responses to Whistle-Blowing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9972063
AutoresAbraham Mansbach (Social Work Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel, autor correspondente), Roni Kaufman (Social Work Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel)
Ano2003
Volume46
Fascículo3
Páginas303-312
Data de publicação2003-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00208728030463004
OpenAlexW2020719510
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas9

This article presents a case of whistle-blowing by a field worker in Israel, in order to examine the ethical decision-making of the Israeli Association of Social Workers. This body initially punished the field worker for criticizing his colleagues' treatment of Israel's disadvantaged Misrachi ethnic group, but some 14 years later officially honored him for the same act. The analysis emphasizes the contingency of ethical decision-making and looks at some organizational, professional and political-cultural factors that affected the association's decisions

Contingency · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Field (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work