Improving the working environment for workers in children’s welfare agencies

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 161-178

  Wagner, ^a   Van, R ^a   Spence, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Association of Children s Welfare Agencies   (Australia)

Author keywords

child welfare work; job satisfaction in child welfare; organizational change in child welfare work; welfare working environments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MORALITY; NARRATIVE; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POLITICS; PRELIMINARY DATA; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RELIGION; RESPONSIBILITY; REWARD; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK EXPERIENCE; WORKER; WRITING;

EID: 84937342793     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2001.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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