Organisational Influences on Professional Behaviour

Community schemes play an important part in a community approach to social work. This paper investigates the extent to which social workers' involvement in such schemes is influenced by personal preference or by their work setting. Data from questionnaires completed by 394 social workers/social work assistants show that the likelihood of a worker's involvement with a scheme varies with the organisation and procedures of the area office, the perceived attitudes of team leaders and the title of the worker's job. Workers' personal attitudes were related to involvement in schemes only in area offices organised on a geographical basis. The paper discusses the implications of these findings for the development of a community approach to social work and for the degree to which social workers can expect to control their work as autonomous professionals

Control (management) · Management · Political science · Preference · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics) · Engineering · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Research in Social Sciences · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work

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