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Organizational career management and job satisfaction of Chinese social workers in Mainland China
Author(s)
Date Issued
2020
Citation
Mo, Y. H. (2020 Jul 15-19). Organizational career management and job satisfaction of Chinese social workers in Mainland China. In IFSW (Ed.). Abstract book of the 2020 to 2030 social work global agenda: Co-building social transformation. The 2020 to 2030 Social Work Global Agenda: Co-Building Social Transformation, Online (pp. 177).
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In today’s Chinese social work environment, high social worker’s turnover isfound and the retention of
social worker is a prerequisite for a social workorganization. Job satisfaction is one of the factors
affecting the turnover of socialworkers. Generic job satisfaction scale (GJSS) and organizational career
managementquestionnaire are used to measure job satisfaction of social workers and the
existingorganizational career management practices in an organization. Both English versionof the two
instruments are translated into Chinese version. The translated versionsdemonstrate acceptable
reliability and validity. The implications of this study is tomake recommendations to social work
organizations concerning various staff careerpractices, for example, induction career planning
workshops, job training, mentoring,supervision, job rotation, line management support etc. The theory
OrganizationalCareer Management can be theorized further, extended or adapted for the social
workcontext in Mainland China.1. Increase understanding of the current development of social work
in China2. Increase knowledge of Organizational Career Management theory in Chinesecontext3.
Increase understanding of the relationship between organizational career practicesand job
satisfactionDr. Kitty Mo was born in Hong Kong. In 2016, she joined the Caritas Institute ofHigher
Education, where she served as the program leader of a social work degreeprogram. She has been
involved in collaborative research projects financed bygovernment and university. Her research topics
are social work supervision,management, organizational development, and special educational needs
of children.
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