Youth homelessness is a prevailing social issue among the world. Bassuk (2010) detailed how approximately 1.5 million youth experience homelessness in America each year. The current economic recession and staggering numbers of housing foreclosures have caused the numbers of homelessness to increase dramatically. For my field education placement learning I am a resource specialist at the Covenant House of Michigan. The Covenant House is one of many homeless youth shelters in the United States. The
1) Zhang Jie is a mature and responsible Primary Six student who will be taking his Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year. His school made a referral and would like me to see Zhang Jie. I am a social worker in a community-based agency providing school-based social work. Zhang Jie’s teachers observed that for the past three months, Zhang Jie’s enthusiasm and concentration in class has declined. His grades too were affected. Zhang Jie expressed that he was feeling stress. He is stress
Jennifer Desmarais Ethical Issues in Organizations 10/2/14 Social Work, the Fiduciary Model, and the CSWA The importance of all objectivity within a variety of work places enforces the obligation of all professionals to not compromise professional judgment because of any conflict of interest, any bias, or the influences of outsiders. All professionals are subject to encounter situations that can create bias, conflicts of interest, and unnecessary influences, however the professional should refrain
0 What is Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Importance on Businesses? Corporate Social Responsibility has been viewed as the sense of responsibility exhibited by a company towards the community and environment within which it operates (Business Dictionary, 2014). The definition of Corporate Social Responsibility can further be broadened to account for volunteering and philanthropy through an expansion from the stakeholders’ perceptive. Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility may go
Articles used in this research agreed on the common ways to treat or handle the ethical dilemma of confidentiality. To begin with, The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (NASW) states that social workers should respect clients’ privacy and protect the confidentiality of all information obtained. The NASW Code of Ethics (Section 1.07c) declares: “The general expectation that social workers will keep information confidential does not apply when disclosure is necessary to prevent
Social work is a tough profession. The profession is not always respected and some workers face a lot of hate or anger. Social workers also have to face a number of rough times and have to make hard decisions. Some of these decisions are be known as ethical dilemmas. In the lecture The History of Social Work, and ethical dilemma is described as existing when there are conflicts between the two or more of the core social work values (class lecture, September 21, 2015). A common ethical dilemma social
with any business entity, Royal Caribbean faces ethical issues that have an impact on the overall functioning of the company. These are also closely linked to legal matters. The focus of this paper will be on how ethical principles can address organizational issues and the company chosen in pursuit of this focus is Royal Caribbean. The legal implications
Being a social worker is a tough profession. The profession is not always respected and some social workers face quite a bit of hate or anger. Social workers also have to face a number of rough situations and must make difficult decisions that not everyone may agree with. Some of these decisions are known as ethical dilemmas. In the lecture, The History of Social Work, an ethical dilemma is described as existing when there are conflicts between the two or more of the core social work values (class
assignment is to identify some of the key professional practice issues within the case in Liffey View. The author will give a critical discussion of the professional practice issues within Liffey View. Reference to professional behaviour, codes of conducts and ethics will also be mentioned. Ethics within social is relating to the morals of doing right or wrong and preventing or removing harm form a service user (McLaren, Leathard, 2009). Social care workers have a duty of care to do no wrong to service
ETHICAL CLIMATE Every organization can be identified by its unique culture. According to Needle (2004) organizational culture is the values, beliefs and principles of organizational members as a the result of the environmental factors the organization operates in. These factors include the history, the nature of markets they work in and the impact on the management according to the targets they have to achieve, working conditions of the employees and how that is reflected on their behaviors, the