TY - JOUR
T1 - Social workers and policy practice
T2 - An analysis of job descriptions in Israel
AU - Weiss-Gal, Idit
AU - Levin, Lia
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Social workers' involvement in the policy-making process (policy practice) is an important aspect of social work. This article examines formal social work job descriptions in an effort to determine whether, and to what extent, social workers in Israel are required to engage in policy practice and which specific activities are required of them in this sense. A quantitative content analysis of 78 job descriptions showed that nearly half the descriptions stipulated at least one policy practice activity, usually within the organization itself. The analysis also indicated that policy practice is constructed largely as an administrative practice, usually performed at managerial levels and defined narrowly.
AB - Social workers' involvement in the policy-making process (policy practice) is an important aspect of social work. This article examines formal social work job descriptions in an effort to determine whether, and to what extent, social workers in Israel are required to engage in policy practice and which specific activities are required of them in this sense. A quantitative content analysis of 78 job descriptions showed that nearly half the descriptions stipulated at least one policy practice activity, usually within the organization itself. The analysis also indicated that policy practice is constructed largely as an administrative practice, usually performed at managerial levels and defined narrowly.
KW - Content analysis
KW - Israel
KW - Job descriptions
KW - Policy practice
KW - Social workers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954203595&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15588742.2010.487248
DO - 10.1080/15588742.2010.487248
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AN - SCOPUS:77954203595
SN - 1558-8742
VL - 9
SP - 183
EP - 200
JO - Journal of Policy Practice
JF - Journal of Policy Practice
IS - 3
ER -