- Title
- The role of the industrial social worker in corporate community relations
- Creator
- Harnett, Claire F
- ThesisAdvisor
- Rankin, P
- ThesisAdvisor
- Mitchell, W A
- Date
- 1993
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSocSc
- Identifier
- vital:21091
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6342
- Description
- This research study is a qualitative investigation of the role of the industrial social worker in corporate community relations. The research study was undertaken by means of mailed questionnaires. Two different populations were utilized, namely corporations known to practice corporate social responsibility and corporations employing industrial social workers. As a background to the research, relations is defined and its Furthermore, the contribution of relations in the realization of a corporate development community traced. corporate community government-business partnership to address community social problems, is discussed. Lastly, in an attempt to demonstrate that the social worker can indeed play a role in corporate community relations, the extent to which corporate community relations goals and approaches correspond with the community organization model of social work practice, is examined. The purpose of the empirical part of the research study was to determine what form community relations has taken in South Africa and the role that the industrial social worker assumes in this regard. From the findings it appears that there is a focus on philanthropic activities and less direct corporate involvement in creating new resources. Industrial social workers involvement in this function was limited. They primarily assumed the roles of consultant and expert. Although these social workers' have laid the ground work for expansion of the industrial social worker's role, it appears that development has been more serendipitous than rationally planned. It appears from the findings that the potential does exist for industrial social workers to assist the corporation to expand its social responsibility programme, and in so doing expand their practice to include macro level intervention strategies. Based on these assumptions, it is suggested that further in-depth research is carried out to establish what strategies are being employed by industrial social workers to expand their roles, it appears that there is a need to assist the industrial social worker to adopt a rationally planned approach in order to assume a greater role in the corporation's social responsibility activities internally and externally.
- Format
- 222 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Social Work
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Harnett, Claire F
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RU Department of Social Work (East London 1981-2003)
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