Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the priority motivation values of the social workers in Bulgaria and the factors influencing them. The study covers 205 social workers, participating voluntarily and anonymously. The Schwartz questionnaire: The Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) was used, adapted by Karandashev (2004). The factor influences between the most significantly manifested values of the social workers and the parameters age, sex, education, improvement of the qualification, work experience, choice of profession and need for specific knowledge and skills were verified. It has been found out that only the parameter ‘choice of profession’ has an influence on the value of “benevolence”. The results of the study show that the priority values of the social workers coincide with the mission and purpose of the social work and confirm the results of other researchers.
Highlights
In today’s postmodern society globalization made it impossible for the separate countries to exist as close societies (Benkova, 2013)
Globalization has had a profound effect on social work practice, changing service delivery; altering the labour process for professional social workers; creating new social problems for practitioners to address, such as peopletrafficking and environmental issues; and producing demands for indigenization, or the development of locality specific forms of theory and practice (Dominelli, 2010)
The profile of the respondents may be explained with the following figure: A woman aged between 39 and 49, working at Social Assistance Directorate, with work experience over 10 years, education other than Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Social activities, with additional training by means of courses, considering that the profession requires specialized knowledge and skills, who has decided to become a social worker at her personal choice (Table 1)
Summary
In today’s postmodern society globalization made it impossible for the separate countries to exist as close societies (Benkova, 2013). Globalization has had a profound effect on social work practice, changing service delivery; altering the labour process for professional social workers; creating new social problems for practitioners to address, such as peopletrafficking and environmental issues; and producing demands for indigenization, or the development of locality specific forms of theory and practice (Dominelli, 2010). A new understanding and new philosophy, entirely directed towards the individual and his decent life have been outlined in the Social Services Act (2019) adopted in 2019. Groups are formed, where the individual needs of the people searching support could be considered. There is a wider understanding that all family members and relatives needs support because one person has a problem, the problem relates to all people living with him
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