SOCIAL WORK RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS STRESS MANAGEMENT
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Social work managers (the concept of manager here refers to a director of a social serviceorganisation, head of office or supervisor, or any person who has control over two or more
workers) should create and maintain a work environment (Weinbach, 2003:5) that will be
conducive to maintaining the health and wellbeing of workers and contribute to the effective
delivery of services. Bergh (2004:440) states that “Organisational effectiveness and employee
physical and psychological wellbeing should be equally important and are interrelated”.
Employees, therefore also social workers, should not leave their workplace in a worse state of
health than when they arrived there (Williams & Cooper, 2002:108).
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