• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.63-81
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to understand the realities of social worker's lives dealt with his/her salary. This study has been conducted by Microhistory Study as a method of qualitative research. For this study, a participant who has worked at the social work agency for 12 years is chosen and interviewed in depth. Analysis of the collected data has been processed and conceptualized by 'finding a clue' named by Carlo Ginzburg. The core themes revealed through the collected data are 'government's incongruent management and social indifference', 'ambiguous expectancy', 'hard time with a small salary', 'uncertainty and losing pride', and 'living painfully and hoping ingenuous living'. Finally, it has been emphasized that the participant's incongruent salary disobeyed the constitution because the participant's duties are to be served by the public government officials.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.65 no.4
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• pp.115-136
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• 2013

This research purports to examine the mediating effects of right perception and performance at service processes in relationship to the social worker's professionalism and user advocacy. As the research method, 198 social workers were surveyed, and structural equation was used for analysis. The research findings showed that the professionalism of social workers had a direct influence on right perception, right performances at service processes and user-advocacy. However, right perception at service processes do not have a direct influence on user advocacy. In addition to this right perception and performances at service processes was proven to be an important mediator between a social worker's professionalism and user advocacy. As a result, this research has implied the necessity for social work practice to promote user-advocacy.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.139-145
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• 2021

This study was conducted to find out the effect of job-crafting of social workers at community children's centers on the satisfaction of children. This study used a multi-level analysis model that calculated the child factor (level 1) and the social worker factor (level 2) by utilizing the responses of 31 social workers and 216 children used at 31 community children's centers. The main research results are as follows: First, it was found that 34.3% of the total variation in child satisfaction was due to differences by community children's centers. Second, it was found that the number of hours used per day in the child factor (level 1), and gender, age, and job-crafting in the life worker factor (level 2) affect the satisfaction of children. Based on these results, measures to improve the satisfaction level of children using community children's centers were discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.3162-3171
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• 2015

This study was aimed to investigate the relation between codependency and mental health and to get a idea dealing with social worker's codependency for their healthy and professional caring, which is an important factor between social worker and client in social work practice. The subjects of this study consisted of 290 social workers working in social welfare facilities of Gangwon-do. The data were collected through self-reported questionnaires from Jun. to Oct., 2013. Results indicated that codependency showed over 50% of social workers were moderate-severe level and there were the significant correlation between codependency and mental health. Implications of findings of this study were discussed.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.131-157
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• 2018

The happiness of social worker's role in promoting the happiness of the people has been relatively overlooked. Despite the importance of the ultimate value and meaning of eudaimonic happiness felt by social workers as a value-oriented profession, negative aspects such as work-related burn-out or hedonic happiness such as pleasure has been mainly focused so far. Happiness is a concept that must be met with both hedonia and eudaimonia, and it is necessary to understand both two dimensions of job satisfaction experienced by social workers. The purpose of this study is to investigate 376 social worker's hedonic and eudaimonic job satisfaction and factors associated with them by analyzing "Social Worker's Eudaimonia" dataset in which the Korean Version of Global Hedonic & Eudaimonic Job Satisfaction(K-GHEJS) scale was used. The results showed that the factors affecting hedonia and eudaimonia were different so that hedonia was statistically significantly associated with the levels of education, income and workload while eudaimonia was not. Based on these results, how to improve the hedonic and eudaimonic job satisfaction among social workers was discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.189-199
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• 2014

This study analyze 42ordinance of a local government for the improvement labor conditions and position of social worker. That way suggest developmental direction of ordinance enactment. The results are as follows. First, there are purpose, subject of application, duty of local government president, condition study, establishment of support plan, improvement labor conditions. But, there are not committee for labor conditions improvement, prize in many ordinance. Second, standard of wage is not, it has to suggesting by the wage standard of social welfare official in local government or Ministry of Health and Welfare. Third, condition study's period and support organization for social worker's labor condition improvement are not clear. Therefore, we must suggest the condition study's period of social worker, and make the support organization for condition improvement.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.88-94
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• 2012

Numerous studies have linked empowerment to employee's behaviors and attitudes. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of empowerment on the organizational commitment and turnover intention of social worker in private social welfare organizations. For the research, empowerment was consisted of meaning, competence, self-determination and impact. This study was analyzed 342 social workers by survey. The results of this study were summarized as follows: Social Workers had correlation to empowerment on the organizational commitment (+). Especially, meaning, self-determination and impact had a positive effect on the organizational commitment; Meaning, competence, and self-determination had a negative effect on the turnover intention. This study finally discussed theoretical implications for future study and practical implications for empowerment strategies on the results.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.65 no.4
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• pp.137-163
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of social workers' emotional labor on non-task behaviors. This study characterizes emotional labor as deep acting and surface acting, non-task behavior as organizational citizenship behavior(OCB) and counterproductive work behavior(CWB). And this study also examines the mediating effect of social workers' emotional dissonance in the relationship between surface acting and non-task behavior, and the moderating effect of senior worker's emotional leadership in the relationship between emotional dissonance and non-task behaviors. The results from this study are as follows. Firstly, social workers' deep acting improves their OCB. Secondly, social workers' surface acting has strong effects on their emotional dissonance, and this emotional dissonance hinders their OCB. In addition, the mediating effect of emotional dissonance is also recognized at this point. Thirdly, senior worker's emotional leadership moderates the relationship between social worker's emotional dissonance and OCB in the sense that emotional leadership is expected to reduce the negative effects of emotional dissonance on OCB. However, the influence of emotional labor on CWB has no statistical significance in this study. Based on these results, detailed theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.12
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• pp.353-360
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• 2019

This study analyzed the effect that an organization's leadership and work environment exerts on social worker's practice performance. The survey for data collection was conducted from July 4th 2019 to July 30th, 2019 among employees of social welfare facilities located in Gyeonggi province. We analyzed the data from 205 participants who had agreed on the purpose of the study. The data analysis showed that the factors for social worker's practice performance were found to be marital status, leadership (transformational leadership, transactional leadership) and work environment. On the other hand, work environment (fairness of job evaluation) was found to have a mediating effect in the relationship between leadership and practice performance. Based on the results, this study discussed the need for adequate leadership to be practiced by taking the maturity of the organization members into consideration so that social worker's professional competence in practice performance can improve. As for work environment, it is imperative to increase the fairness in job evaluation.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.26
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• pp.201-226
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• 1995