A study on career transfer of social worker - an example of qualified social worker in local government

• Main Authors: Ho, Tsai-Yen, 何彩燕
• Other Authors: Hwang, Yuan-Shie
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3ymp2v

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 92 === The research aims to explore factors influencing career transfer of qualified social workers from contract employee to civil servant, and to look at its impacts on both agencies before and after shifting. In addition literature review and document analysis, this research mainly took qualitative analysis as main methodology. Twelve qualified social workers of local government accepted in-depth interview, including 7 transferred and 5 un-transferred. The main findings include: 1. Factors influencing career transfer can be categorized into three dimensions, policy, organization and individual. The transferred regulation is fundamental to career transfer. This is followed by the supporting level of local government to social worker’s transfer. As to individual factor, better rewarding system for civil servant is a strong incentive for the decision making of career transfer. 2. Relative stability for civil servant post is an attractive reason for choosing transfer. But the new transferred environment is not always friendly. They are many challenges and problem faced by those transferred. For example, inadequate knowledge and skill in administration, and relative discrimination caused by less formal channel gained the post. 3. Loss of qualified social workers for some local government is a result of lack of well transferred mechanism. This would bring negative impacts on organizational climate and morale. If the measure of ‘transfer in place’ is taken the local government has to invest more budgets on personnel. How to cope with the dilemma is a challenge to decision makers. Finally, according to results, the study provides twelve suggestions from three aspects, social worker, organization and system. Hopefully, they will be able to contribute to policy and practice of this transferred mechanism, and to building up of a sound social work system in Taiwan.