INCENTIVE MECHANISM OF SOCIAL WORK SERVICE ORGANISATIONS BASED ON EXISTENCE, RELATEDNESS AND GROWTH (ERG) THEORY

Abstract

Although China vigorously encourages professional social work, a serious loss of social work talents is observed. This study adopted existence, relatedness and growth (ERG) theory to explore the relationship needs characterised by respect and interpersonal relationships by discussing the meaning, function, particularity and existing problems of social work incentive mechanism of social work service organisations. Due to the importance of incentive for growth needs, this study provides suggestions on the incentive mechanism of social work service organisations from three levels of survival, relationship and growth needs through establishing a complete training mechanism to promote the self-development of social workers. The incentives of social work services are to meet the needs of social workers for self-growth and development, social work service organisations must establish an effective promotion system to effectively prevent the loss of talents while upholding the spirit of fairness, openness and reasonableness. Such a system should use the performance of social workers as the evaluation criterion for promotion.

Keywords:   social work service; organisation; incentive mechanism; ERG theory; training mechanism