This study is aimed at understanding the factors that influence professionalism recognized by social welfare servants to look for plans for raising their professionalism.
In order to perform a study on factors concerning strengthened professionalism,...
This study is aimed at understanding the factors that influence professionalism recognized by social welfare servants to look for plans for raising their professionalism.
In order to perform a study on factors concerning strengthened professionalism, the author looked at 301 social welfare servants who are working at "Dong"s, "Myen"s, "Eup"s, county offices and the city hall of Daegu metropolitan city to conduct a survey. After analyzing factors playing a role in enhancing the professionalism of social welfare servants, the author found the following results.
First, in the case of factors about sociology of population, men over women have better professionalism, and higher ages, higher positions and longer working periods lead to better professionalism.
Second, in the case of the performance of duties, a sense of achievement and discretion, and third, in the case of organizational environmental factors, the amounts of duties and status guarantee are correlative with professionalism. Fourth, in the case of institutional factors, decrees and the conditions of the system alone are correlative with professionalism. Finally, in the case of valuational factors, a sense of ethical duty, altruistic dignity, and a sense of internal responsibility all are closely correlative with professionalism.
The results of investigating how much factors relevant to professionalism affect professionalism indicate that valuational factors had most great impacts followed by factors concerning the performance of duties secondly, and organizational environmental factors thirdly. However, the results found that institutional factors do not meaningfully affect professionalism.
These analysis results suggest that the professionalism of social welfare servants are closely relative to valuational factors, and this means that it is needed to recognize the value of social welfare highly in order to improve professionalism.
Therefore, in order to improve the professionalism of social welfare servants, discussions based on practical experiences, seminars, strengthening education focused on actual work and study prosecution focused on cases should be carried out, the discretion and liberty of social welfare servants should be enlarged to increase their sense of achievement in the fields of practicing social welfare, and at least two social welfare servants should be deployed for one "Eup", "Myen", or "Dong" to reduce the amounts of duties, to enhance the field welfare administration seeking actual visits and to improve the quality of social welfare services. In addition, self-development and education for desirable characters should be performed so that social welfare servants can accomplish professional authority as mediators for changes by their subjects.