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© British Association of Social Workers

Does Area Team Organization Make a Difference?

ROGER FULLER and ALISON PETCH

Roger Fuller has held research posts in universities, a local authority and the National Children's Bureau. Alison Petch has undertaken research in a range of social policy areas, in both local authority and university settings. They are currently at the Social Work Research Centre (SWRC), University of Stirling, which is jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Office.

Correspondence to Roger Fuller, Senior Research Fellow, University of Stirling, Social Work Research Centre, Stirling FK94LA, Scotland

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The paper describes early stages of a programme of research designed to investigate the effects of different ways of organizing social work teams. Initially conceived as an attempt to study the relative effectiveness of specialist and generic team organization, the focus has been broadened to encompass a range of wider and sometimes cross-cutting organizational variables. After a brief review of attempts to specify organizational characteristics and of the methodological problems they pose to the researcher, a preliminary study is reported. This compared services to the elderly delivered by teams exemplifying some of the more prominent organizational types. The study tentatively identifies a number of factors which distinguished between teams in social work activities and in rudimentary measures of client outcome. The dimensions of further work which would fill out these early findings and explore further organizational effects are sketched.


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