Organisational Behaviour for Social Work

There has been a distinctive increase over recent years in debates about social work that relate specifically to the context and organisational frameworks guiding practice and encouraging increasing reflection on how tinkering at the edges is no longer acceptable or desirable. Much of the discussion has included issues such as the need for systemic cultural change (Munro, 2012) and on more realistic expectations and better understanding of the role played by social workers actually implementing policy and reforms. This refers not only to the need to draw on discipline-specific knowledge, skills and expertise, but also to the ability of social work to be able to access more diverse subject areas, research and evidence from a broad range of sources. These can encourage new ways of thinking and working and so contribute to the genuine development of sustained improvement and quality services. It is refreshing, therefore, to see a text that engages both prequalifying and front line social workers with topics and issues that normally have been seen to lie in the remit of management practice. Bissell has managed to bring a number of these topics together in a succinct and timely way in his approach to examining organisational behaviour for social work.

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• Recalcitrance, compliance and the presentation of self

  Open Access•Jadwiga Leigh•Children and Youth Services Review•2017

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• Social Work in Organizations

  Open Access•Mark Lymbery•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

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