By Pam Carter, Tony Jeffs, Mark K. Smith
Social Working offers a framework for considering the day-by-day (and no longer so day-by-day) studies of being a social employee. every one bankruptcy of the ebook makes a speciality of a key procedure together with establishing the day-by-day around; holding files; policing consumers, counselling; teaching; advising and advocating; dwelling along; supervision of employees and teamworking.
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This game is often used as a form of regulation by the majority who may identify one or more team members as not carrying a fair balance of the work, but who do not feel able to say so openly within the group. This could lead to damaging confrontation; instead, we are trying to ensure a fairer method of distribution of work by looking at a teamdevised caseload weighting system. Team members are aware that the ultimate sanction in allocation can come from the team leader. From an awareness of workload the team leader will sometimes allocate without a bid being made.
These recordings are more 'task-related' in that they concentrate on 'jobs done'. There is some comment on general attitude and behaviour. *** In addition to the methods of working, other aspects of face-to-face work are also recorded, such as critical incidents and home visits. Critical incidents may occur at any time, in any setting, and while employing any of the methods mentioned above. By a 'critical incident' I mean one which would seem to be significant, either to client, worker or agency.
Formalized team-building and team development have not had the effect management might have wished to achieve. We have been resistant to team-building agendas which lacked clarity and to crudely developed methods which do not appear to relate to the actual working experience. These exercises ignore the point that most development is self-regulated, and people cannot be forced into changing attitudes. I did not see the point as a student of kneeling on the classroom floor to complete a team jigsaw of a parrot, and neither do I see the point as a child protection worker in designing a chocolate bar wrapper; I am sure many do.
