Career commitment among social workers: The contribution of personal, organizational, and vocational factors

Anat Freund, Guil Javier Koltun, Amit Zriker

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Abstract

Despite today’s considerable changes in the labor market, studies on the career commitment of social workers remain scarce. The current study focuses on the personal, organizational, and vocational factors of social workers’ career commitment. The study included 251 social workers from various organizations in Israel. Findings show that their career commitment is positively correlated with Protean and Boundaryless career patterns, as well as with their perceived career success. These findings could contribute in developing tools that could increase social workers’ career commitment, which in turn would enable them to be more effective at work, to the benefit of their clients.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1095-1110
Number of pages16
JournalInternational Social Work
Volume65
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2022

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Keywords

  • Boundaryless career pattern
  • Protean career pattern
  • career commitment
  • perceived career success
  • social workers

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