Strategies employed by social work supervisors and supervisees to manage their supervision relationships within the South African NGO sector

Mahlangu, Nompumelelo Lydia

dc.contributor.advisor	Bhuda, G.B.	en
dc.contributor.author	Mahlangu, Nompumelelo Lydia	en
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-02T08:57:26Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-02T08:57:26Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10500/31594
dc.description.sponsorship	Social work services in South Africa are rendered by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), amongst various other entities. To ensure effective service delivery to clients, social workers working in the NGO sector are supervised. For supervision to occur, both the supervisor and the supervisee enter a supervision relationship and as such, locating the supervision relationship is crucial. This study thus explored strategies employed by social work supervisors and supervisees to manage their supervision relationships within the South African NGO sector. A qualitative approach following an exploratory, descriptive, and contextual design was employed in the study and data collected by means of semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed using Moustakas’ steps for data analysis as outlined by Holloway and Wheeler (2010:286). Guba’s and Lincoln’s model was employed for data verification. Ethical issues such as informed consent, confidentiality, anonymity, harm to participants, debriefing, management of information and beneficence were followed in the study. The study established that participants employed different strategies to manage their supervision relationships. The participants’ strategies included holding regular supervision sessions, early interventions, confrontation, communicating, understanding, tolerance, and resorting to disciplinary procedures. Based on the findings, recommendations for the social work profession, policy makers and future research are proffered with the goal of improving social work supervision relationships.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (xiii, 181 leaves) : illustrations, color map	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Strategies	en
dc.subject	Social work	en
dc.subject	Social work supervisor	en
dc.subject	Social work supervisee	en
dc.subject	Supervision relationships	en
dc.subject	Non-governmental organisation	en
dc.subject.other	UCTD	en
dc.title	Strategies employed by social work supervisors and supervisees to manage their supervision relationships within the South African NGO sector	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Social Work	en
dc.description.degree	M.A. (Social Work)	en