There is little disagreement about the importance of a healthy stable workforce in promoting
effective provision of child welfare services. This review proposes a multi-level conceptual …

Committed social workers are significant to organizational performance and service quality;
therefore, it is crucial to explore the contributing factors of turnover intention to enhance …

Purpose: Job satisfaction, burnout, and organizational commitment remain concerns for
human service organizations. Few studies have utilized a large sample of social workers to …

Drawing on Herzberg's concept of motivation to work, we investigate characteristics related
to job satisfaction among social service workers. Logistic regression analyses support …

Rates of turnover are high in child welfare settings, impacting the organization, remaining
workers and the children and families under their care. A number of demographic …

High annual turnover rates that plague child welfare agencies are costly and disrupt
services. Numerous studies have focused on aspects of the workplace and the …

Background Turnover among frontline child welfare workers is estimated to be as high as
40% annually, attributed to factors such as stress, emotional exhaustion, safety concerns …

In the United States, frontline child welfare workers are tasked with meeting the child welfare
systems' goals of child safety, permanency, and well-being. Child welfare workers' job …

A significant challenge facing the child welfare system is the recruitment and retention of a
stable and qualified workforce. Several studies have identified individual and organizational …

A number of proxies have been used in child welfare workforce research to represent actual
turnover; however, there have been no psychometric studies to validate a scale specifically …