• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.165-169
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• 2010

This study seeks to find the factors associated with social workers' turnover intention and show us how to manage turnovers by looking for some rules affecting turnover intentions. Our investigation surveying 331 social workers reveals that social workers' turnover intentions are affected by organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and burnout. Our pattern analyses using fuzzy ID3 show that the higher their commitment, the higher their job satisfaction stemming from promotion opportunities, rewards, and personal relations with peers and bosses. In addition, turnover intentions decreases (even if burnouts--the job-related stress--are very serious) when organizational commitment increases. We come to understand that organizational commitment could be a more important variable than job satisfaction and burnouts. Such results suggest that it would be necessary to consider how to improve social workers' organization-wide commitment rather than satisfaction and burnout related to jobs and environments.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.157-162
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between resilience, burnout, and self-efficacy of Public Social Workers and to draw implications for effective management of Public Social Workers. In order to accomplish this study purpose, the resilience of Public Social Workers as an independent variable, burnout as a dependent variable of occupational identity, and self-efficacy as a moderating variable were selected. The causal relationship between resilience and burnout and the moderating effect of self-efficacy were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, the resilience of Public Social Workers showed a significant effect on burnout, and the effect of resilience on burnout varied according to self-efficacy, so there was a moderating effect of self-efficacy. Based on the results of this analysis, the theoretical implications and policy implications of this study are suggested.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.556-563
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to verify the difference of importance-performance about human right of social worker who works in housing facilities of the disabled. Based on our result, we suggest strategies to implement human rights for the disabled. We collected data from 344 social workers in Busan. We analyzed descriptive statistics, and employed T-Test and Importance-Performance Analysis. Results found the importance level was higher than the performance level of human rights for the disabled. Second, agreement of residential space open and vote right guarantees, the importance level was higher than performance level. Items, excluding ensuring religious activities, prohibiting corporal punishment, strengthening the facility monitoring system and improve facility environment and strengthen program, featured a higher performance level than the importance level. Third, based on the IPA analysis, we derived action strategies for each IPA analysis matrix. We examined 10 items, including free communication included in the first quadrant, improvement of facilities management policy in the second quadrant, prohibition of corporal punishment and strengthening of facility monitoring system in the fourth quadrants.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.235-254
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• 2016

This study examined the mediation effect of the family resilience between the family stress and social problem solving ability of the women social worker and welfare specialist, considering that women's middle age needs the resilience including the adaptation, reestablishment in the family life cycle. The sampling target was the 328 women social workers in the middle age, and it performed the Sobel Test for the mediation effect verification after enforcing the multiple regression analysis, next, it is same. Firstly, the economic problem was most highly severe among the family stress subfactor. Secondly, there was altogether the part mediation effect of the family resilience' subfactors, ie, communication processes, belief systems and organizational patterns between the family stress and social problem solving ability. In conclusion, if the family stress which the middle aged women social worker confronted was accurately analyzed and the family is intervened so that the family resilience functions properly, the social problem solving ability would be able to be improved.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• no.37
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• pp.267-294
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• 2008

Social workers experience various work commitment forms in the field practice. This study tries to find the discriminant validity of job, organizational, career, and relationship commitments among these work commitment forms. This study also tries to find the interrelationship among these commitment forms and the relationship of each of four commitment forms with the withdrawal intention, which is represented by turnover intention and career change intention. For this purpose, a survey of 417 social workers working for community welfare centers in Busan and Gyeongnam was conducted and the data was analyzed. The results of this study showed that the work commitment forms have discriminant validity. The analysis of interrelationship between commitment forms using SEM revealed that the more a social worker commits to his or her job, the more he/she commits to his/her job and the relationship with the client. In addition, job and organizational and career commitments affect turnover intention while career and relationship commitments affect career change intention. Therefore, to improve organizational management, it is necessary to understand diverse forms of work commitment as well as organizational commitment. And differentiated management strategies are needed to increase either each commitment form or various commitment forms at the same time.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.665-673
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• 2013

The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of learning organization on social worker's organizational commitment and turnover intention in the social welfare organization. For the research, learning organization was consisted of shared vision, personal mastery, team learning and system thinking on the P. Senge's learning organization model. The results of this study were summarized as follows: Mean analyses showed that social workers perceived the level of learning organization had a higher than medium. By using a hierarchical multiple regression, shared vision, personal mastery and team learning had a positive effect on the social workers' organizational commitment. Shared vision and team learning had a negative effect on the social workers' turnover intention. This study finally discusses theoretical implications for future study and practical implications for learning organization strategies on the results.

• Korean Journal of Family Social Work
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• no.62
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• pp.103-139
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to explore the social workers' reflections developed during the participatory action research seeking practice methods in the community welfare center single parent self-help groups. Nine social workers and researchers sharing difficulties in the community welfare center single parent self-help group practice were involved in the participatory action research. We performed a circulatory research repeating 'plan-action-reflection-replan' cycles through ten sessions of research meetings including peer supervision in parallel with 4 self-help group practices. Multiple practice methods were derived as the result among which change in the social workers' perception was the key. We focused on the result that the social workers' perception was changed by reflections from participatory action research and the contents of the reflections were qualitatively analyzed using materials acquired during the study. As a result the following 5 themes were derived; 'recognition and worry on the lack of appropriate practice for the self-help group', 'specification of the social workers' role based on the changed perspective on the member-social worker relation', 'confirmation of the possibility of the concerned person initiated practice', 'detailed understanding of the single parent self-help group in the community welfare center', and 'renewed recognition of the development of the single parent self-help group in the community welfare center'. Based on these results, empowerment and reflection/reflective practice for single parent self-help group in the community welfare center were discussed.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.178-184
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• 2021

This study was conducted to empirically verify the factors that affect work-life balance according to the age of social workers. The subjects of the study were social workers working at social welfare centers, welfare centers for the disabled, and welfare centers for the elderly located in Jeollabuk-do, and 313 copies of 42 facilities that participated in the survey were used for the final analysis. The research method used a multi-level model that calculated individual factors (Level 1) and institutional factors (Level 2). The main research results are as follows. First, 20.2% of the total variance in the work-life balance of social workers was found to be different for each local welfare center. Second, as a result of examining the factors affecting work-life balance of social workers by age, it was found that job demands had a negative effect on work-life balance in all age groups. In particular, in their 30s, family demands and women's work-life balance were more negative than men's, and economic status was found to be an important influencing factor on work-life balance. Based on these results, we discussed ways to improve work-life balance for social workers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.258-267
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• 2020

This study identified the relationship between professional competence of social workers, organizational commitment, and happiness, and then analyzed the effect of professional competence on the happiness of social workers and the mediating effect of organizational commitment. The survey for data collection was conducted among employees of social welfare facilities located in Gyeonggi Province. We analyzed the data from 203 participants who agreed to the purpose of this study. For the collected data, descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression analyses were performed using SPSS 22.0. The data analyses showed that the professional competence of social workers was found to have a meaningful effect on the happiness and organizational commitment of social workers. Second, organizational commitment of social workers was found to have a meaningful effect on happiness. Third, organizational commitment was found to have a partial mediating effect on the relationship between professional competence and the happiness of social workers. Based on the results, this study suggested that professional competence affects the happiness of social workers and also recommends practical plans that can improve organizational commitment.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.175-182
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to analyse the effects of public service motivation on organizational performance and suggest the theoretical and policy implications. For this purpose, this study measured the public service motivation and organizational performance of social welfare center workers, set up the study model to analyze the relationships between the public service motivation and organizational performance, and tested hypothesis through questionnaire analysis. The analytical results show that the public service motivation and organizational performance of social welfare center workers are relatively high on the whole. And attraction to policy making, commitment to public interest, compassion, and self-sacrifice as the elements of public service motivation appear to have significant effects on organizational performance. In this study, some theoretical and policy implications are introduced basing on the analytical results.