THE SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF TEAM

CLIMATE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH TEAM

EFFECTIVENESS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
HIGHLIGHTING IMPACT OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL ON
RESEARCH PROBLEM.

Presented by: Guided By:
Asst. Prof. Alpa Parmar Dr. Chhaya Patel

PhD Student
Batch: ( 2014 )
Content:

Definition of globalization.
Globalization and Social work education:
Impact of globalization on social work education
Impact of international social work
Challenges of social work education and practice in 21
st
century
Impact of globalization on team
Global Factors impact effectiveness of team has been identified.
Social work Contribution to Effective Teamwork
Summary






Definition:

Globalization is a
"Process of global integration in which diverse
people, economics, cultures, and political
processes are increasingly subjected to
international influences ... [and] also refers to
a greater awareness of the role of these
influences in every day experiences" (1997, p.
xi).

Globalization and Social work
education
Areas of the curriculum for the infusion of
content on globalization include human
behavior in the social environment,
comparative social policy, community
development, and sustainable development
courses (Rotabi et aI., 2007).
To make globalization relevant in all aspects of
social work education, defining the
phenomenon by its positive and negative
consequences or as an interdependence of
economic, social, and cultural systems around
the world.

Impact of globalization on social
work education:
The impact was seen as increasing the need for
more international and intercultural knowledge,
including foreign language competencies and
training opportunities abroad.
Impact of international social work:
To understand international social work, one must
know the context for social work in
underdeveloped countries. While high rates of
economic growth have reduced the numbers of
the poor in large parts of the world, many still lack
access to basic social services.


Challenges of social work education and
practice in 21
st
century :

In the 21st century, globalization leads to
changes that challenge social work practice
and education, and the idea of postmodernism
challenges the validity of a universal
knowledge base. This is because where
societies are built on different cultural and
social assumptions postmodernism raises
questions about the dominance of any
particular set of ideas, both generally and in
social work.
Challenges of social work
education and practice in 21
st

century :
Walton and el Nasr (1988) suggested that two
parallel processes of interaction between
international and local forms of social work
may occur:
Indigenization of non-local social work
practice, by adapting imported ideas to make
them relevant to local practice
Authentication of local practices to form a new
locally-relevant structure of ideas.

Challenges of social work
education and practice in 21
st

century :
Gray and Fook (2004) propose that in considering
international social work, we should think about four
tensions, between:
Globalization and localization the tendency for
globalizing and localizing tendencies to occur
together.
Westernization and indigenization the balance
between Western and alternative conceptions of
practice
Multiculturalism and universalization the implication
and response to inbuilt cultural biases
Universal-local standards the incorporation of both
universal and localized conceptualizations of social
work within our thinking.


Local aspect of Social works education
contribution to teamwork

Social work values and ethics
Social work theory
Characteristics of the profession:
1. Beginning where ones colleagues are,
2. Respecting differences in values, knowledge
and problem-solving styles,
3. Willingly sharing ones own knowledge values
and skills even when they may conflict with those
held by others,


Impact of globalization on team:

A Multicultural team is a group of employees selected
from two or more countries who are brought together
to coordinate, develop, or manage some aspect of a
firms global operations (Steers & Nordon, 2006).
Multidisciplinary teamwork involves professions
working independently towards their common goal of
serving clients.
Interdisciplinary teamwork is defined by Carlton
(1984) as: practice by two or more practitioners from
two or more fields of learning and activity, who fill
distinct roles, perform specialized tasks, and work in
an interdependent relationship toward achievement of
a common purpose (p.129).



Global Factors impact
effectiveness of team has been
identified.

Management structures: a shared model of
team management be considered as a factor
in promoting team cohesion (Hannigan, 1999).
Alignment of employment contracts of
team members with broader employment
policy:The effectiveness of teams is limited
unless they have a clear role and position in
the organisational structure of the service
(Harris & Beyerlein, 2005).


Global Factors impact
effectiveness of team has been
identified.
Balancing generic vs specific professional
roles
An important factor is whether individual
professionals feel valued for the unique
expertise and commitment they bring to the
team, if the team can successfully identify
shared core roles and responsibilities, and
distinguish these from the specific unique skills
that individuals and disciplines contribute, this
can facilitate the success of multidisciplinary
team operation.

Global Factors impact
effectiveness of team has been
identified.
The client group of the team
Conflict resolution
Training and preparation for working in
multidisciplinary teams
Information sharing and communication
Insufficient nurturing of teams
Interpersonal skills

Global Factors impact
effectiveness of team has been
identified.
Multicultural teams have the potential to
achieve higher productivity than homogeneous
teams, but they also risk experiencing greater
losses due to faulty process.
Diversity makes team functioning more
challenging because team members find it
more difficult to see, understand and act on
situations in similar ways.
Global Factors impact
effectiveness of team has been
identified.
To compete in the globalized world companies
need to adapt them to the ever evolving
external environment. The ability to respond to
changing scenarios determines the ability of a
firm to compete in this era of uncertainty.
Multicultural teams are formed to enhance the
efficiency of an organization by making
effective use of the diversity of viewpoints.

Social work Contribution to
Effective Teamwork

Team members can be a source of leadership
(Abramson, 1989), can support the team
leader in his or her role, can facilitate team
identity, can support problem solving, and can
work towards goal achievement.
Social workers are skilled in all of these areas,
and can enable the team to work effectively by
facilitating communication, cooperation,
compromise, and coordination within the team
(Skidmore,1995).


Conclusion:

It can be concluded that globalization has great
impact on social work education and team work .
Team climate mainly depends on working
environment of companies and now a day we can
observe multinational companies have
multicultural teams, interdisciplinary teams as well
as multidisciplinary teams.
Most of the team have base from group and they
work from that dimension at local stage but with
fast moving globalised world teams are changing
and handling teams is getting difficult therefore
how to develop a effective teams is big question in
upcoming time.


As a team member social work education
helps in team effectiveness by:

maintaining a sound professional identity and making
competent professional judgments reflecting social
work values,
monitoring and evaluating team dynamics and
encouraging the team to look at important issues
which are affecting its functioning,
supporting other team members who challenge the
group or who question group norms,
assisting the team to attain a sense of cohesion
through positive reinforcement of other members,
adding to the creativity of the team by freely expressing
new ideas which can stimulate others thinking while
modeling respect for differences within the team,

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