Organisational Study: AASW Standards, Political Frame & Social Work

This report provides an organisational study focusing on the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) practice standards and the application of a political frame, particularly critical theory, within human service organisations. It analyses the relevance of AASW Practice Standard 1.1.c in the context of asylum seeker detention, using descriptions from Briskman et al. (2012) to illustrate the analysis. The study examines how a political frame can assist social workers in achieving professional standards by identifying power dynamics and inequalities. It further explores the role of social workers, nurses, and guards in providing services to recipients, emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations, honesty, and respect for human rights. The report also addresses the significance of organisational culture and leadership in fostering a positive and effective work environment, highlighting the need for ongoing training and support for employees to uphold AASW standards and contribute to societal well-being. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and resources for students.

Organisational Study

Table of Contents
Viewing the organisations............................................................................................................3
Recipients of services..................................................................................................................4
Workers:.......................................................................................................................................5
Work in organisation:..................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals:.....................................................................................................................8

Viewing the organisations
The Australian practice standards AASW which is meant for the welfare of society and its
people. These practice standards follows by various practitioner in order to fulfil requirements of
people who are in need and also to provide support to the organisations and people who are the
part of social work places. It enables guidance for social work providers which set out to be
necessary to clear out the vision of curriculum development (Review of the AASW Practice
Standards 2013, 2021). The person who desires to be a social care provider needs to get licensed
and eligible for the membership of AASW. These practice standards require eligibility criteria
thereunder, it is necessary to get experienced to how manage people who are suffering from
many social dis balance. These practice standards gets changes and revised as according to the
change in political and social environment. So that, it will maintain the social work practices as
per the need of society and workers will get updates about what should be more beneficial for
the people.
The relevance of AASW is critical and essential for social workers based on Australia. As per
The practice standard 2013, the organisation work on their norms and ethics that describe
standardized policies in order to provide social practices within the boundaries of social norms
and culture. These norms are created in order to guide the social worker to achieve professional
identity and be accountable for the practices. These ethics enable effective working and develop
core values towards society and its people. Some of these ethics are respecting other people,
Social Justice, professional integrity which focus upon fair honesty responsibility, reliability and
sympathy. These factors are relevant as what the workers will perform is shaped by the
organisation only. It includes power target and knowledge about social work and Society
(Wilson, Katz, Dalgleish, and Rix, 2007). These social workers bring the required change into
society with concern of people betterment.
Viewing the organisation is also an essential activity performed by Social Work places. It
reflects about how the people think and behave. What implications does people before going to
any work or task. There are various implications which can be predict and created that divide the
people in terms of their class and gender. Apart from this, the social workers can view the
society through focus attention. All these implications are a part of working with human service
organisation in a political context. By using political frame, it has analysed that the organisation

people are composed with some powers which is the used in relation to assess the resources and
try to make their implications more powerful and respect of others (Smith, Harms, and
Brophy,2021). As political framework states that, these issues may be encounter the whole
decision making process. It means the people are combined into the groups and each people
wants to gain control over the resources (International Arctic Science Committee, 2020). This
result in many conflicts due to which organisation may face problems in completing their targets
and AIMS. It has analysed that the two agenda that is nurses and guards are competing in
managing the work properly. As nurses take work implication in more close content whereas,
guards are only follow external criteria. So that, nurses are more affected with the political
context in viewing the organisation. As it is analysed that there is dominance and correlation
between the agenda imposed by people who work with human welfare organisations.
The political frame is helping in achieving the social work standard of professionalism in
work practices. As these political frames are based on critical theories which describe human
psychology and behaviour that might be regarded to focus the attention on priority and orders.
The social map workers will identify the inequalities associated into society in terms of caste and
gender. What are the dominant values and interest regulating into the society which can be
eradicate through effective work practices.
Recipients of services
The AASW practice standard 2013 and the code of ethics 2010 standards are essential to
work with Social Organisation in order to provide services to the recipient. This organisation is
helpful as they provide number of services to the people who are in need and want continuous
support from social workers. The workers are ready to provide services like financial or
resources support. There are many services provided to overcome with addicted problem lack of
Rights Australia and resources availability. Therefore, these associated standards are helpful to
maintain the policies and work practices under control so that no harm would be prevailed to any
people. These standards are relevant to the organisation as healthcare organisation is required to
have much resources from government charity and other factors that would be useful to provide
better services. Nurses and guards plays a vital role in healthcare sector as they are the only one
who understand the actual case scenario and guide others to carry out work in according to set
resources.

According to the viewpoint of Boddy, O’Leary, and Panagiotaros, (2021). The recipient
of services is contrasting through many ways which has shown in the work practices of social
workers. In the field of Healthcare sector, the nurses and doctors get implication of how the
patients are feeling at the time of some serious cause or disease. These recipient of services
ensure that they have a good view point towards others problem. This will help in recognising
and remembering what the patients are actually suffering from. After reading the reviews
weather it is about the workers or patient’s, there is the solution of treatment of therapy after
knowing the exact cause. This worker performs their practices and job role in such a manner that
they are owned suffering from the same causes which might offend or harm a person's life.
Therefore the contrast shows words and actions are both different phenomena for Healthcare
services. A person might say something different as according to what they actually does.
Sometimes the nurses and doctors me lie by seeing the condition of patient to their families and
try to put their best efforts in order to come up with good news. Therefore these actions and
words may differ while giving social services as it is a matter of emotional does balance and
mental control. It can be compare that nurses and guards have two distinct job roles and
personality. As talked earlier, nurses helped the patients in overall condition till they are under
the hospital premises. Whereas, guards watch the outside party arrival to not let any unwanted
individual outside the premises. Therefore, in recipients of services there is need to check all the
To keep these recipients of Services within the standards, AASW have a ascertained sum
rules and ethics regarding the services. The worker gets to respond to the patients as soon as the
get a call. Also they need to respect the feeling of others while delivering services whether they
are not on doctors. Providing social service is not only about giving something and let it go but
it's about the whole materialistic and emotional persona. Therefore, the standards are on the basis
of keeping a balance between emotional heartbreak and mental intelligence to deliver words and
actions. There is also a policy of integrating principles of honesty real values and equal rights
and opportunity to other (Rodriguez, and Michna, 2019). Therefore in case of Health Care
practices , the doctors believe in giving a right opinion and prescription as per the patient
condition also deliver correct information with utmost honesty. All the standard help the social
workers to achieve their as well as organisation aim make a better society and people. These
recipients of services needs to be view as per the human rights and standards. As every other
people has their different values and requirement so that, each person must be treated with the

suitable resources. For example, a disable individual must be treated with utmost care and
require equipments rather than non-disable individual.
Workers:
As per new standards of social workers 2003, The workers are most crucial part of social
services. These are the only one who interact with people closely and get deep down into their
problems. These results in analysing the actual cause and what could be the best solution will be
find out by these employees and workers. They might be employee’s doctor, nurses and anyone
who contribute their efforts towards social practices. The staff play a vital role in ascertains
problems and use their creative mind set in order to overcome with the challenges
(Rusakovskaya, and.et.al. 2021). All the people working within an organisation are known as
employees whether they are nurses or guards. As they provide the relevant information to the
people who are confused about where to get the excess of services.
According to the viewpoint of Dittfeld, (2020). The workers and social practitioners are
also descriptive in their words and actions. This makes contrasting as they need to held control
on both their words and actions in order to provide some information and taken action on the
basis of the information received. As there is vast connection of good communication in order to
work in coordination. As it is necessary for social work practice so that all the complexities will
be manage and result in achieving target and aims within a limited period of time. As per the
AASW standards, the workers are known by their capabilities and skills to enhance
organisation's productivity. Therefore, it is necessary workers get appointed by interpersonal
policies and how they behave towards their job role. In human service organization, employees
must have confident a vast dedication to achieve targets without creating any negative
environment (Pérez, Harris, and Chor, 2020). Workers must be confident and positive into their
work practices to leave a a fruitful image of Organisation in society. As social work and
Healthcare practices are increasing day by day due to vulnerable condition of society so that
these workers may not lose the temper and think before taking any action.
These employees must be professional in achieving of practices and maintaining the standard.
These employees are the future leaders and present Associates to carry out operational work and
overcome with the society challenges. It is necessary to analyse and rectify any in relevant
practices to keep employees on the track of honesty fair decision , professionalism, integrity and
emotional balance (Patil, and Ennis, 2018). The standard imposes some boundaries and extent to

which employees are ready to take decisions and expand work practices in a well manner. So
that , working on some standard will improve the quality duration of the outcome.
Work in organisation:
Working in organisation is relevant through AASW practices. It is necessary to work under
a good cultural environment in which all the people are treated equally and effectively. An
organisation that works with standard and on the basis of people belief is the one which get
anonymous success into society. Therefore the association plays a vital role to keep the workers
and their work as according to the culture of organisation and how they should behave, think and
implement must be according to a proper organisation structure(Fatema, 2020). It is not meant
that these structures are making the employees left flexible or criticize their creative thinking but
they insure that there must be a perfect way to do things that would not harm the society.
AASW practices are relevant which keep the employee updated about new policies and
amendments and make improvisation into their working habits.
As per the viewpoint of (Green, 2019). There are several issues undertaken in respect of
organisational culture and leadership. The Walkers are entitled to get proper guidance and
training regarding work practices (Mohiuddin, 2017). These are in the hands of effective leaders
to inspire and motivate them towards social working. There comes some situation in which
employees lose motivation and not ready to put their efforts so that leaders play a vital role to
boost their morale. But there are some issues identified in social practices. As for the cultures
there are some amendments made on policies to treat patients who are brutally diagnose and
require instant treatment but the practices are not get followed by employees or doctors due to
lack of communication and guidance to co-ordinate among themselves. There are some cultural
issues like language barriers and non diversifying work environment which leads to disappoint
the patients is employees are not able to understand their beliefs or languages (Khiatani, and Liu,
2020). This could be made better through effective training and creating diversifies culture.
These issues create hurdle in analysing problems and come out with a valuable solution.
In order to get positive response and overcome with the issues of culture and leadership it is duty
of employees to show their recognition towards their job role. The workers need to put more
emphasis on organisational policies and Standards before integrating towards actual working. As
this policies and culture play a vital role in social standards. The workers need to be Emphasis
towards training sessions and any opportunity to enhance knowledge and capabilities so that

there could be a multi tasker. Social Work practices require this kind of employees who could
serve their best at any field or area. Therefore, leadership must be effective and up to the
relevancy of facts and practices(Oah,. and Moon, 2018). The leaders must be concise and
inspiration for others that good increase moral and enable workplace dedication. Through these
effective practices, the cultural issues will be minimised as the people will get all the services
without facing any problem and wasting unnecessary time.

REFERNCES:
Books and Journals:
Wilson, W.J., Katz, J., Dalgleish, J. and Rix, J., 2007. The Australian staggered spondaic word
test (ASSW). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology, The, 29(1), pp.14-
25.
International Arctic Science Committee, 2020. Moving a Conference from Iceland to Zoom: Best
Practices and Lessons Learned from Arctic Science Summit Week 2020.
Green, S., 2019. Indigenising social work. Our voices: Aboriginal social work, pp.86-100.
Rodriguez, A. and Michna, J., 2019. Adherence to Evidence-Based Practice for Major
Depressive Disorder. UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIV OF THE HEALTH
SCIENCES BETHESDA MD.
Rusakovskaya, and.et.al. 2021. Psychiatrical assessment of civil status of recipients of inpatient
social services in two regions of Russia. European Psychiatry, 64(S1), pp.S710-S711.
Pérez, A.G., Harris, R.J. and Chor, K.H.B., 2020. Factors Predicting Patterns of Service Use
among John F. Chafee Independent Living Services Recipients. Child Welfare, 97(6),
pp.21-51.
Fatema, K., 2020. Attitude towards Psychiatric Medication among the Providers and Recipients
of Mental Health Services (Doctoral dissertation).
Khiatani, P.V. and Liu, J.K.K., 2020. Reciprocal learning in service-learning? Measuring
bidirectional outcomes of college students and service recipients in tutor-based
services in Hong Kong. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 57(3),
pp.364-373.
Oah, S., Na, R. and Moon, K., 2018. The influence of safety climate, safety leadership,
workload, and accident experiences on risk perception: A study of Korean
manufacturing workers. Safety and health at work, 9(4), pp.427-433.
Mohiuddin, Z.A., 2017. Influence of Leadership Style on Employees performance: Evidence
from Literatures. Journal of Marketing & Management, 8(1).
Smith, F.L., Harms, L. and Brophy, L., 2021. Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental
Health Placements. The British Journal of Social Work.

Boddy, J., O’Leary, P. and Panagiotaros, C.V., 2021. Hope during and Post-Disasters: Social
Work’s Role in Creating and Nurturing Emancipatory Hope. The British Journal of
Social Work, 51(5), pp.1917-1934.
Dittfeld, T., 2020. Seeing White: Turning the postcolonial lens on social work in
Australia. Social Work & Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory, 3(1).
Smith, F.L., Harms, L. and Brophy, L., 2021. Factors Influencing Social Work Identity in Mental
Health Placements. The British Journal of Social Work.
Patil, T. and Ennis, G.M., 2018. Critically reflecting on the Australian Association of Social
Workers Code of Ethics: Learning from a social work field placement. British Journal
of Social Work, 48(5), pp.1370-1387.
Online
Review of the AASW Practice Standards 2013, 2021. [online] Available through:
<https://www.aasw.asn.au/practitioner-resources/practice-standards>