The effect of organizational factors on the use of evidence-based practices among middle managers in Swedish social services
2020 (English)In: Human service organizations, management, leadership & governance, ISSN 2330-3131, E-ISSN 2330-314X, Vol. 44, no 1, p. 32-46Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This study explores the effect of organizational factors, such as work unit size, diversity of services offered, geographic coverage, managerial culture, and staff qualifications on the degree to which middle managers in Swedish social services use evidence-based interventions. An ordered generalized logistic regression shows that most of these organizational factors are positively related to the use of evidence-based interventions above and beyond managers’ individual-level characteristics, such as interest in evidence-based interventions, education, gender, and managerial experience. Furthermore, a social work qualification is the only one of these individual-level controls that appears related to the use of evidence-based interventions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2020. Vol. 44, no 1, p. 32-46
Keywords [en]
Evidence based interventions, managerial education, organizational culture, skills of the staff, Sweden, article, education, female, gender, human, human experiment, male, manager, skill, social work
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-47213DOI: 10.1080/23303131.2019.1683667ISI: 000501967500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85076437272Local ID: HOA HHJ 2019OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-47213DiVA, id: diva2:1382213
2020-01-022020-01-022021-01-07Bibliographically approved