Application of Social Work Skills to Human Resource Management

Abstract

Workers in various settings are beset with a multitude of issues which sometimes interfere with their personal effectiveness and overall productivity. The skills and knowledge that social workers possess can be applied to nontraditional settings in novel ways to increase employee productivity and organizational effectiveness. This paper will explore how social work skills can enhance the methods that human resource management applies to the current problems of the workplace. It will examine the skills used by social workers and how those skills uniquely fit with the approaches used in human resources.