Factors That Affect Social Workers

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The turnover of the social workers is a critical issue in the field of social work. The
retention of the social workers is a challenging factor as according to the members of the social
work organizations. Therefore, this particular topic has become an interesting area of
intervention among the researchers. Many researchers have opined that even though this field is
very promising and very rewarding, yet the attrition rate of the employees are quite high in these
areas, as well as the quality of the services provided by the social workers are deteriorating with
time. Therefore, in this particular essay, the factors that affect the retention of the social workers
will be discussed, along with that, the motivational factors to retain the social workers in the
organization will be highlighted as well.
In order to understand the reasons for high attrition among the social workers, it is
important to understand the factors that affect the retention rate among the employees. Cho, Y.
J., & Song, (2017) in his work showed that the first of these factors are, Work Engagement. This
particular aspect of the job requires from a person to be energetic, dedicated absorbing and
fulfilling. However, the benefits that the workers expect in return of their dedication, and their
engagements, are very low, and the and therefore there is a tendency among the workers to leave
their job.
Another important factor is job satisfaction. Every employees have certain expectations
and requirements from their job, however, as according to the researchers, there is very limited
job satisfaction among the employees. More importantly, the work life balance for the social
workers is very limited and many of the social workers have opined that many of the times they
have to go beyond their limits in order to meet the challenges. Therefore, there is an excessive
demand and stress in this particular job, and the employees do not get any extra benefit which
can be effective for their stress management.