Negotiating personal engagement and professional accountability: professional wisdom and ethics work

Everyday ethics in professional life: social work as ethics work

“…Having conducted interviews and collected first person written cases over many years (see Banks, 2004;Banks and Nøhr, 2012), I began to look at what social workers were doing when they were giving an account of their practice in ethical terms. I identified initially six (Banks 2013) and later seven features that might be useful for conceptualising ethics work. This account of ethics work is not intended to provide a normative ethical framework (an alternative to existing sets of principles and virtues) to guide/prescribe practice.…”

“…I will do this by exploring the concept of 'ethics work'. I have introduced the idea of 'ethics work' briefly elsewhere (Banks, 2009(Banks, , 2012(Banks, , 2013, but this article expands on what it means in theory and practice -illustrated by accounts given by social workers. 'Ethics work' encompasses reasoning, but also includes work on emotion, identity, roles and responsibilities, for example.…”

Organizational Professionalism: Social Workers Negotiating Tools of NPM

“…Although Samantha provides a graphic account of the flipside of documenting their work, social workers' criticisms are generally also accompanied by positive assessments of writing reports as found in other research (e.g., Banks, 2013;Farrell & Morris, 2003). The participating social workers emphasise that the scoring schemas create continuity and coherence in their daily work.…”

“…These tools aim to provide high quality and effective work. A so-called managerial discourse has entered social work organizations (Banks, 2013;Clarke, 1996;Farrell & Morris, 2003;McDonald, Postle, & Dawson, 2008;Rogowski, 2010;Roysum, 2013;Shanks, Lundström, & Wiklund, 2015) as well as nursing practices (Carvalho, 2014;Debesay, Harsløf, Rechel, & Vike, 2014;Newman & Lawler, 2009) and doctors' work (Benish, 2014). Within the field of social work, research shows how a managerial discourse has suppressed classic social work values such as placing the welfare recipient at the centre of the work (Clarke, 1996;Ferguson, 2009) as well as focusing on the needs of the client (Rogowski, 2010).…”

Een Program Theory benadering voor het theoretisch onderbouwen van sociale interventies: een casestudie van vijf Nederlandse maatjesprojecten

“…Horizontale verantwoordingsrelaties met collega professionals, beroepsorganisaties en professionals uit andere sectoren waar een sociale professional mee samenwerkt (Banks, 2013;Gulikers, 2016;Hupe & Hill, 2007).…”