Power, Professionalism and Organisational Transformation

T. May and M. Buck

Sociological Research Online, 1998, vol. 3, issue 2, 89-102

Abstract: Utilising data drawn from a study of a social service organisation, this article aims to understand the relationship between the rationale of organisational transformations and the professional status of social workers. It contains an examination of the original aims of Community Care legislation, its translation by management into processes of re-structuring and alterations in job specification, as well as the perspectives of those at the front-line of the organisation. This enables a theoretical consideration of organisational transformation and power and their relationship to the identity of social workers.

Keywords: Community Care; Identity; Implementation; Management; Organisation; Power; Professionalism; Resistance; Social Work; Transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.159

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