Workers’ Constructions of the ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ advocate in a domestic violence agency

Thorburn, N; Jury, A; Weatherall, R

Workers’ Constructions of the ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ advocate in a domestic violence agency

Thorburn, N Jury, A Weatherall, R

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Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Human service organizations, management, leadership & governance, 2018, 42, (3), pp. 318-326
Issue Date:: 2018-04-19

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dc.contributor.author	Thorburn, N
dc.contributor.author	Jury, A
dc.contributor.author	Weatherall, R https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-5275
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dc.identifier.citation	Human service organizations, management, leadership & governance, 2018, 42, (3), pp. 318-326
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dc.description.abstract	Grassroots activist organizations are heavily reliant on workers’ willingness and commitment to give of themselves. Organization expectations accordant with this are often embedded with organizational cultures and climates, which then tend to reinforce behaviors that threaten sustainable well-being. To find out how this might manifest in our own grassroots, domestic violence-focused agency, the authors surveyed 111 workers and interviewed 12. Pervasive cultural norms of selflessness and toughness led to a collective construction of what constitutes “good” advocates and “bad” advocates. The authors therefore focus their discussion on the paramountcy of promoting acceptance of emotionality beyond clients to the workforce itself.
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dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
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dc.title	Workers’ Constructions of the ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ advocate in a domestic violence agency
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Grassroots activist organizations are heavily reliant on workers’ willingness and commitment to give of themselves. Organization expectations accordant with this are often embedded with organizational cultures and climates, which then tend to reinforce behaviors that threaten sustainable well-being. To find out how this might manifest in our own grassroots, domestic violence-focused agency, the authors surveyed 111 workers and interviewed 12. Pervasive cultural norms of selflessness and toughness led to a collective construction of what constitutes “good” advocates and “bad” advocates. The authors therefore focus their discussion on the paramountcy of promoting acceptance of emotionality beyond clients to the workforce itself.

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