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Professionalism och alienation – En kvalitativ studie om organisationsstyrning och professionella förutsättningar inom ekonomiskt bistånd

Hamdoun, Samer Mohamad LU (2022) SOPA63 20202
School of Social Work
Abstract
Swedish public management, including the management of social work organizations, has undergone radical changes. In the areas where the changes have been studied, these have been shown to have a direct impact on the social worker’s professionalism and working conditions. Therefore, the aim of this study has been to understand how social workers reason about the conditions for conducting professional social work in financial assistance. The study has been conducted through semi-structured interviews with six Swedish social workers from financial assistance organizations in different municipalities. The collected material has been analyzed with help of C. Wright Mills’ development of the term “alienation”, and Julia Evetts’ use of the terms... (More)
Swedish public management, including the management of social work organizations, has undergone radical changes. In the areas where the changes have been studied, these have been shown to have a direct impact on the social worker’s professionalism and working conditions. Therefore, the aim of this study has been to understand how social workers reason about the conditions for conducting professional social work in financial assistance. The study has been conducted through semi-structured interviews with six Swedish social workers from financial assistance organizations in different municipalities. The collected material has been analyzed with help of C. Wright Mills’ development of the term “alienation”, and Julia Evetts’ use of the terms “organizational professionalism” and “occupational professionalism”. The results of the study show that the dominant professional conditions within the organizations of the study participants are organizational-professional which affects the occupational-professional action opportunities. The study participants manage their discretion in different ways, among which different working conditionings associated with the market-inspired control are made visible. These conditionings are expressed in forms of intellectual alienation, self-alienation, and the so-called fetish of objectivity. (Less)
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Hamdoun, Samer Mohamad LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPA63 20202
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
financial assistance, discretion, organizational professionalism, occupational professionalism, alienation, self-alienation, fetish of objectivity, ekonomiskt bistånd, handlingsutrymme, organisationsprofessionalism, yrkesprofessionalism, självalienation, objektivitetens fetisch
language
Swedish
id
9076948
date added to LUP
2022-03-21 16:00:41
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2022-03-21 16:00:41
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  abstract     = {{Swedish public management, including the management of social work organizations, has undergone radical changes. In the areas where the changes have been studied, these have been shown to have a direct impact on the social worker’s professionalism and working conditions. Therefore, the aim of this study has been to understand how social workers reason about the conditions for conducting professional social work in financial assistance. The study has been conducted through semi-structured interviews with six Swedish social workers from financial assistance organizations in different municipalities. The collected material has been analyzed with help of C. Wright Mills’ development of the term “alienation”, and Julia Evetts’ use of the terms “organizational professionalism” and “occupational professionalism”. The results of the study show that the dominant professional conditions within the organizations of the study participants are organizational-professional which affects the occupational-professional action opportunities. The study participants manage their discretion in different ways, among which different working conditionings associated with the market-inspired control are made visible. These conditionings are expressed in forms of intellectual alienation, self-alienation, and the so-called fetish of objectivity.}},
  author       = {{Hamdoun, Samer Mohamad}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Professionalism och alienation – En kvalitativ studie om organisationsstyrning och professionella förutsättningar inom ekonomiskt bistånd}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}