Why Are They Leaving? Factors Affecting Intention to Leave among Social Workers in Child Welfare

By P. Tham. 2006

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Subfields: Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Enhancing Wellbeing in Social Work Students: Building Resilience in the Next Generation (2012, unknown): “The high level of stress experienced by social workers has been found to contribute to the growing retention problems within the profession in the UK (Eborall and Garmeson, 2001; Tham, 2007; LGA, 2009).”
• Professional identity and turnover intentions of social workers in Beijing, China: The roles of job satisfaction and agency type (2019, background): “Job- and organization-related conditions are well-known factors when discussing staff retention in regard to social workers (Kim and Stoner, 2008; McFadden et al., 2015; Mor Barak et al., 2001; Shim, 2014; Tham, 2007).”
• Retaining Social Workers: The Role of Quality of Work and Psychosocial Safety Climate for Work Engagement, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment (2019, background): “Consequently, public social services face great difficulties with regard to the retention and the recruitment of personnel (Coffey, Dugdill, & Tattersall, 2004; Kim & Kao, 2014; SKL, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, 2015; 2016; Tham, 2007).”