Supervising Social Workers in Involuntary Contexts: Some Considerations

ABSTRACT

This article outlines areas for reflection for those providing supervision to social workers working in involuntary and semivoluntary contexts. This includes clinical implications, impacts on social work identity, and potential impacts on the supervisory relationship itself. It suggests that there are some areas that could be considered for discussion and exploration that may be different in focus to other types of supervisory practice, encouraging supervisors to consider their own approach in response to the issues raised.

IMPLICATIONS

• Working in involuntary contexts raises specific challenges in relation to power and authority in practice, as well as a range of ethical dilemmas.

• Supervisors might wish to consider the issues raised with a view to exploring with their supervisees how working with involuntary clients changes their framework or approach.

     

Analysis of Australian Research Council Grants Awarded for Social Work Projects 2008–2017

ABSTRACT

The quantity and quality of social work research is central to creating knowledge for the profession and maintaining social work’s presence and status in universities. This study examines Australian Research Council grants awarded for social work projects for the 10-year period 2008–2107. It investigates the quantum of grants and the topics addressed, and compares social work to related social sciences. The field of social work was awarded 84 research grants over the 10-year period, a total of $23 million and an average of 8.4 grants per year. However, this did not match the grant successes of the two comparator fields of criminology and social policy and administration. Having a clear picture of research achievements, including grants, is necessary to enable the discipline to plot a strategic way forward, addressing gaps and deficits, and building on strengths.

IMPLICATIONS

• Increasing research grant success is vital to the ongoing development of the social work knowledge base, and bolsters the standing of social work in universities.

• Maximising the use of social work Field of Research codes will increase the visibility of social work research, especially in multidisciplinary projects.

• Social work researchers should publicise competitive grant successes

     

Network stability in organizational flux: The case of in-house management consulting

This article explores the effects of organizational flux on the statics of interpersonal knowledge exchange structures. In our empirical case, organizational flux refers to high rates of personnel turnover, temporary project work, constant recombination of team memberships, and short-term collaboration. Network statics refers to the balance between forces composing and decomposing a network. Set in continuously changing organizational compositions of an in-house management-consulting unit, our study offers insights into the relationship between organizational characteristics and informal networks between experts. Against conventional intuition, we find a dense and stable structure of knowledge exchange. Furthermore, we elaborate on the two concepts of organizational flux and network statics, by comparing the observed structures with theoretical (random graphs) and empirical references (other empirical cases), and by using ERG models to account for different factors of organization, social balance, and individual attributes.     

Configuring knowledge connectivity and strategy conditions for foreign subsidiary innovation

We argue that product innovation by foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations is a complex undertaking requiring a theoretical understanding of how managers combine subsidiary structural arrangements, knowledge connectivity, and contextual conditions into configurations that yield innovative products. Accordingly, we integrate relevant conditions from interrelated literature streams and explore their complementarities and substitutions in relation to subsidiary product innovation. Using a neo-configurational approach and data on 183 foreign subsidiaries operating in Europe, we identify six equifinal configurations associated with subsidiary product innovation. We leverage the configurational patterns to elaborate theory of how subsidiary product innovation is primarily driven by the interrelations among the relevant conditions, thus contributing novel insights to research on subsidiary management and global innovation.     

新时代背景下实践的新分类

实践是马克思主义理论的基本范畴和重要思想,实践作为可以涵盖人类全部社会生活的统一的概念,必然是随着人类社会和人类社会生活的发展而发展的。虚拟实践随着虚拟现实技术的迅速发展引起了学界的广泛关注,虚拟实践是否是实践的问题是探讨的焦点之一。从虚拟实践的辨析和分类入手,结合经典作家对实践的论述,通过比较实践和虚拟实践的特点,提出虚拟实践属于实践,而且是在新的历史时期迅速发展的不容忽视的实践形式;实践既包括现实实践,又包括虚拟实践,虚拟实践既包括精神实践又包括非精神实践,这些不同的实践形式共同构成人类完整的丰富多彩的实践活动。     

旧唯物主义之“旧”与新唯物主义之“新”

旧唯物主义的旧在于它的直观性,即只是从客体的或直观的形式去理解现实中的事物,而不能从主体方面把感性理解为人的感性活动,理解为实践。马克思创立的新唯物主义的新在于它的实践性,即从主体方面把现实中的事物当作实践和人的感性活动来理解。克服了旧唯物主义的直观性,新唯物主义从实践出发去说明人的本质与社会生活,以及国家、法和意识形态的产生过程,最终在社会历史观领域摆脱唯心主义的纠缠。     

高校电子商务课程实践教学改革探索

基于高校电子商务课教学实践,分析了该课程实践教学存在的主要问题,如实验室建设不完备、辅助教学软件不齐全、缺乏专业化复合型师资、实践教学落后于电子商务发展等。并针对这些问题提出培养专业师资队伍、加强实验室建设、加强校企合作、建立校外实训基地等改进对策。     

关于知识经济与可持续发展的哲学思考

要实现人与自然的协调发展,就必须实现可持续发展战略.知识经济正是促进人与自然协调、可持续发展的根本途径.发展知识经济既是可持续发展战略的客观要求,也是经济发展战略的一种必然选择.     

知识经济中的企业权力结构——会发生从资本雇佣劳动到劳动雇佣资本的变革吗

现代科技革命正在变革着社会生产生活的方方面面 ,知识经济已成一个流行术语。正是在这一背景下出现了一种新的企业权力转移论 ,认为知识型企业将出现劳动雇佣资本这种新的组织结构。我们认为知识经济的发展并没有降低资本、设备的重要性 ,资本市场的发展也没有降低资本所有者的风险 ,西方企业分配形式的变化并不意味着人力资本已取得了与其他资本同样的地位。劳动雇佣资本的设想并不能因为知识经济的发展而变为现实     

范式理论的马克思主义审视与重建

库恩的范式理论从根本上摧毁了西方科学的传统形象,激发了学界对科学性质的广泛论争。以马克思主义来看,库恩的范式理论把历史性、实践性和革命性引入科学,合理地再现了科学"通过革命而进步"的本性,其局限则在于其范式概念仅仅定位于社会文化领域而丧失了物质性的维度,并在认识论上陷入了旧传统哲学固有的困境——历史与逻辑的分离,最终导致科学丧失了承担起改造世界的责任。对库恩的范式理论进行马克思主义审视与重建,对于捍卫和发展马克思主义科学哲学具有重要价值。