Social Work Intervention in Human Resource Management: The Conceptual Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuntak Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Main Component

People are the main component as well as the target for social work practice. The intention of this profession is to help individuals /groups/communities to find out and solve their difficulties arising out of an imbalance between them and their surroundings and to assist them enhancing and restoring their capacities and potentials. On the other hand, Human Resource Management stands for recognizing and channelizing the uniqueness, talents, potentials, capabilities and strengths of human beings in work place, to develop their productivity as well as to ensure the protection of rights, social security, and justice for them. Human Resource Management is a term that aims to the blooming people as a valuable resource of the organization rather than their control as material assets. By analyzing the frameworks and philosophical bases of both the profession, it can be clearly elucidated that the practice of Human Resource Management, where it aims into resolve the disequilibrium in workplace relationship or employee-employer relationship and when it aims to identify, utilize and channelize all of their potentials and inner resources to develop their productivity the process of Social Work intervention strongly finds its way into the domain of practice of HRM and vis-à-vis.

scholarly journals Editorial

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Leena James ◽  
Barnabas .
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Customer Experience Management

This issue of Ushus includes research papers on contemporary issues in different streams of management. The first article "Customer Experience Management -the Mantra for Success," discusses how to set up an emotional bonding between the customer and the company through the implementation of strong Customer Experience Management (CEM). The study concludes that pleasant, powerful, and vibrant customer experience can create an innovative corporate image thereby giving leverage in extending the brand name further and also helping the management to capitalize competitive advantage towards the journey of success. Unwavering focus on the customer and the constant need to spot an opportunity has resulted in extremely high gear marketing effort in the banking sector. In the article "Assessment of Quality Service in Public Sector Banks: An Empirical Analysis," the author demonstrates the service quality expectations of the customers and conformance of the same in the present competitive banking scenario. In the third article "Social Work Practice in Human Resource Management" the author addresses the apparent changes in work practices in India due to the impact of LPG (Liberation, Privatization and Globalization). The author analyses some of the harmful effects of current work practices such as reduced security and satisfaction and increased working hours and stress, thereby pointing out the need for the re-orientation of Social Work Education and practices in Human Resource Management. The author goes on to explain the need for re-assessment of current work practices and suggests a shift towards more social friendly work practices. In "Work Ethics and Value System - A Fact Finding Study of Corporate Practices," the authors focus primarily on ethical issues that corporate decision makers face in developing policies abotit employees, customers and the general public. It identifies the ethical dilemmas faced by the employees and their resolution in the context of work environment.

scholarly journals Negotiating Quality for Social Work: A Participatory Research Project in South Tyrol

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-514
Author(s):  
Walter A. Lorenz ◽  
Silvia Fargion ◽  
Urban Nothdurfter ◽  
Andrea Nagy ◽  
Elisabeth Berger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Starting Point

Purpose: The measurement of quality in social work practice has become an area of growing interest and relevance in the social services field. Our starting point is that quality in interventions with human beings has to be defined in ways that incorporate the multiple perspectives of all the subjects involved. Methods: The study, adopting qualitative and quantitative methods, explored issues of quality in social services provision in South Tyrol in Italy from the point of view of the main stakeholders. Results: It was possible to identify four dimensions of quality that stakeholders considered important: the political role of practitioners, the ability to take an active role in the organization, the capacity to connect with other professionals, and the quality of direct relationships with users. Conclusions: Results provide an understanding of the common and differing expectations evident in stakeholders’ perspectives and ideas for better quality systems

Human Resource Management

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Boxall ◽  
John Purcell ◽  
Patrick M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Policy And Practice

Human resource management (HRM), the management of work and people towards desired ends, is a fundamental activity in any organization in which human beings are employed. It is not something whose existence needs to be elaborately justified: HRM is an inevitable consequence of starting and growing an organization. This article focuses on the scope of HRM and its major subfields. For example, Micro HRM (‘MHRM’) covers the subfunctions of HR policy and practice.

EPS社工介入模式

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 93-115
Author(s):  
炳光 甘
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Service User ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Strengths Perspective ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Important Basis

本文主要介紹筆者始創的一個名為EPS的社工介入模式。這個介入模式主要是運用充權(Empowerment)、參與(Participation)和強項角度(Strengths Perspective)三個概念去推行社工的介入方法。本文首先介紹這個模式的三個基本信念，包括：(一) 社會工作的重要目標是去幫助服務對象達致充權；(二) 透過參與才能讓服務對象獲得充權；及(三) 極度相信服務對象有能力及有強項。本文分別闡述充權的概念和作用，分析為何要促進服務對象的參與，剖析達致有意義及高度參與的方法，以及檢視強項角度的信念和重要性。EPS模式認為，社工實踐中一定要將這三個概念 (E、P、S) 緊扣在一起，才能達到社工的理想目標。無論在哪個服務範疇，社工都應該以強項角度去看事物，鼓勵服務對象的參與，從而令他們得到充權。充權是要達到的目標，參與是一個方法，而強項是一個重要的基礎。目標，方法，基礎三樣缺一不可。這個模式指出社工介入的核心元素是採用強項角度去運用參與以達致充權作用。本文最後探討若忽略這三個重要概念或其中一個，社工的介入會出現甚麼問題，並剖析三個概念的互動如何促進社工介入的成效，以及介紹EPS模式在不同領域的應用。 This article introduces a social work intervention model which is called EPS Model and is newly developed by the author. The EPS Model is to apply the following three concepts in social work practice, including Empowerment (E), Participation (P) and Strengths Perspective (S).The article firstly presents the three basic beliefs of the model: (1) the main goal of social work practice is not just to provide services and help people solve problems, but to help people empower themselves; (2) the empowerment goal can be actualized through promoting service user participation and (3) we have to strongly believe that people have strengths and abilities. The article then introduces the concept of empowerment and its functions, discusses why service user participation should be promoted and the effective means of promoting meaningful and greater participation, and examines the faith and importance in strengths perspective. The main characteristics of the EPS Model is to affirm that these three concepts (E, P and S) are inter-related and need to be closely inter-linked. Empowerment should be regarded as the aim of social work practice. Participation is the effective means to achieve empowerment. Strengths perspective is thus regarded as the important basis for social work intervention. The aim, the means and the basis are equally important and neither one can be excluded. This model suggests that social work practice should be based on the strengths perspective and should make use of participation to achieve service users' empowerment. The article finally examines the problems arising from the neglect of any one of the three important concepts, the impact of the interplay of the three concepts on the effect of social work practice and the application of the EPS Model in different service settings.

The State of Social Work in Egypt

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamido Megahead
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Synthetic Approach ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Work Education

Although professional social work in Egypt has a 100-year history, there is a dearth of information in English about social work in Egypt and other non-Western countries. Five domains of social work in Egypt are (1) the international flow of Western social work practice into Egypt, (2) modern social work, (3) social work research and social work interventions, (4) social work education, and (5) fields of practice. These five domains that inform modern social work in Egypt were produced from international flows of Western social work practice into Egypt. It was also produced from social work research and social work intervention. Modern social work also comes from teaching bachelor of social work students professional social work courses. Social work knowledge was adapted, authenticated, and indigenized to meet local context. These five dominated themes have been detailed and explained. International flows of Western social work practice into Egypt include transmission (transplantation), authentication, and indigenization. Modern social work in Egypt includes social work practice and social welfare policy. Social work research has included explanatory, descriptive and experiment social work research studies. Social work intervention has included social work intervention of aiming at solving problems and stressors and social work intervention of aiming at applying resources for change. Fields of social work practice includes family and child Social Work and school social work. Social work education is focused only on Bachelor of Science in Social Work covering the professional social work courses group work practice, social casework practice, community organization, social welfare planning, policy and administration, fields of social work practice. A synthetic approach that knits together these five themes entail that modern social work has been produced from international flows of Western social work practice into Egyptian context. It is also produced from social work research and social work intervention. Modern social work also comes as results of teaching Bachelor Social Work (BSW) students the professional social work courses.

Strategic Human Resource Management

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Zainab Hamid ◽  
Muhammad Muzamil ◽  
Shawkat Ahmad Shah
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Policies And Programs

Human resource management has become an integral part of management with the basic aim of maintaining better human relations at work place through the application and evaluation of organizational policies and programs so as to utilize human resources in an optimized and effective manner. In this context, this chapter focuses keenly on the various domains centering around human resource management. Initially a detailed theoretical background regarding this construct has been presented followed by highlighting the components and objectives of strategizing human resource management. Lastly, the models and perspectives pertaining to strategic human resource management have also been discussed considering their application and relevance in modern-day organizations.

Social Work with Older Adults and Their Families: Changing Practice Paradigms

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta R. Greene ◽  
Harriet L. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Aging Population ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Work Intervention ◽  
Difficult Situations

Given the far-reaching social, economic, and demographic changes in the aging population, the authors argue for a methodological and practice-oriented transformation in future geriatric social work. The authors suggest that if they are to maintain their independence and well-being, a resilience-enhancing social work intervention will be especially effective in fostering the specific survival skills that older adults often already utilize to help them cope with difficult situations. A risk-resilience model sensitive to ethnic difference and practiced at multiple systems levels (e.g., the community) is offered as an advancement of the traditional models of social work practice. In conclusion, the authors emphasize the value of a strengths perspective to address the pressing issues that affect the aging population.

Putting “Human” into Human Resource Management

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde J. Lindley
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Carl Rogers ◽  
Assessment Specialists ◽  
Relationship Of

This article stresses the importance of studying how the employee functions in the organizational setting in which he/she works. The relationship of organizational climate to performance is described by reviewing some of the research in this area. Human resource management means providing an organizational climate that will motivate the employee to reach his/her highest potential of effectiveness. It is treating employees as human beings, as persons with feelings, aspirations and pride. A philosophy of human resource management is presented based on the counseling philosophy of Carl Rogers, that each person has inner resources to grow and become a fully functioning person. Suggestions are made about the leadership style necessary to produce an organizational climate that will unleash the tremendous potential within employees. Participative management and other means of involving employees are encouraged as human resource management endeavors. Assessment specialists and other personnelists are challenged to assist managers and personnel directors in developing a truly people oriented, participatory, human organizational climate. “Human” human resource management means greater productivity.

scholarly journals Crucial Importance of Work Productivity in the Conditions of a-Typical Employment

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Dobrowolska
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Psychological Dimensions ◽  
Intensive Search

Work productivity is of crucial importance to all employers regardless of what solutions they use, traditional or flexible ones. Most human resource management programs are oriented on HR tools that are favourable for employee efficiency, and hence on organizational effectiveness and productivity. When examining different psychological variables that are relevant in psychology of work and organization, popularity and productivity prove to be vital, since this variable correlates with all the remaining psychological dimensions due to continuous and intensive search for ways to improve efficiency in the work place. This article presents the results of the research carried out on n=2118 a-typical employees.

Strategic Human Resource Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 260-275
Author(s):  
Zainab Hamid ◽  
Muhammad Muzamil ◽  
Shawkat Ahmad Shah
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Policies And Programs

Human resource management has become an integral part of management with the basic aim of maintaining better human relations at work place through the application and evaluation of organizational policies and programs so as to utilize human resources in an optimized and effective manner. In this context, this chapter focuses keenly on the various domains centering around human resource management. Initially a detailed theoretical background regarding this construct has been presented followed by highlighting the components and objectives of strategizing human resource management. Lastly, the models and perspectives pertaining to strategic human resource management have also been discussed considering their application and relevance in modern-day organizations.

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