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    A human resource management programme for social workers at psychiatric hospitals
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1996-12) Hendry, Anna Elizabeth; Botha, N. J.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Social Work.
    ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study investigated the need for a human resource management programme for social workers at psychiatric hospitals. The emphasis was on gaining access to and exploiting optimal specialist knowledge and skills. The motivation for the study has been the new challenges brought about by rationalisation of health and 'welfare services due to budget limitations and the 1996 White Paper for Social Welfare's call for more effective and equitable service delivery. Due to management cut-backs and restructuring of services, the prospects for satisfying extrinsic needs of staff, for example, by means of salary increases and promotion options, are poor. It thus becomes the task of the social work manager to activate potentially committed staff members by means of satisfying their higher intrinsic needs such as for example the need for autonomy and greater responsibility. A literature study was undertaken to explore and describe the relatJonship between the administrative, educational and supportive functions of human resource management and supervision within the framework of the development model. Data for the empirical study was collected by means of. self-administered questionnaires completed by the social workers at the three psychiatric hospitals in the Western Cape namely, Valkenberg, Lentegeur and Stikland. The needs of social workers and the tasks of the manager were investigated and described. Guidelines for a human resource management programme were determined according to the research findings in terms of staff acquisition, staff development and training, staff utilisation and evaluation. Findings also indicated the need for a shift from a control to a more participative and commitment paradigm.