REVISITING THE ESOTERIC QUESTION: CAN NON-SOCIAL WORKERS MANAGE AND SUPERVISE SOCIAL WORKERS?
A dilution, and eventual denigration, of the social work profession, such as through the practice of social workers being managed by non-social workers, can increasingly be traced to neoliberal utterances and resultant managerial discourses. Social workers may unwittingly be contributing to the hand...
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2015-08-01
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| description | A dilution, and eventual denigration, of the social work profession, such as through the practice of social workers being managed by non-social workers, can increasingly be traced to neoliberal utterances and resultant managerial discourses. Social workers may unwittingly be contributing to the handover of management practices to non-social workers. This paper outlines the reasons for the tension between general management and social work management, presents a conceptualisation of social work management and supervision, and examines the impact of the global neoliberal discourse and resultant managerial tenets on social work in the South African context |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e778bbbf0fd340c28d564c01f79a65972022-12-22T04:18:39ZafrStellenbosch UniversitySocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk0037-80542312-71982015-08-0151310.15270/51-3-451REVISITING THE ESOTERIC QUESTION: CAN NON-SOCIAL WORKERS MANAGE AND SUPERVISE SOCIAL WORKERS?Lambert Engelbrecht0Stellenbosch UniversityA dilution, and eventual denigration, of the social work profession, such as through the practice of social workers being managed by non-social workers, can increasingly be traced to neoliberal utterances and resultant managerial discourses. Social workers may unwittingly be contributing to the handover of management practices to non-social workers. This paper outlines the reasons for the tension between general management and social work management, presents a conceptualisation of social work management and supervision, and examines the impact of the global neoliberal discourse and resultant managerial tenets on social work in the South African contexthttps://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/451 |
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| title | REVISITING THE ESOTERIC QUESTION: CAN NON-SOCIAL WORKERS MANAGE AND SUPERVISE SOCIAL WORKERS? |
| title_full | REVISITING THE ESOTERIC QUESTION: CAN NON-SOCIAL WORKERS MANAGE AND SUPERVISE SOCIAL WORKERS? |
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| title_short | REVISITING THE ESOTERIC QUESTION: CAN NON-SOCIAL WORKERS MANAGE AND SUPERVISE SOCIAL WORKERS? |
| title_sort | revisiting the esoteric question can non social workers manage and supervise social workers |
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