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© British Association of Social Workers

Staying or Leaving? The Commitment of Social Workers to their Work*

RACHEL KATS, SHLOMO SHARLIN and NURITH NAHMANI

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The relation between sex, extent of employment, and commitment to their occupation and to their employing organization is analysed for social workers in Israel. Generally, the professionals in the sample were not strongly inclined to leave either job or occupation, unless presented with a strong incentive. Commitment in this sense was stronger to occupation than to one's employing organization. Least inclined to leave were female social workers employed part-time, followed by women who were fully employed; male social workers had the lowest attachment. A dominant factor committing the women, in particular those working part-time, to their occupation and particular organization was their family status—being married and having children. This finding points to the attachment being instrumental, rather than intrinsic.


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