Old and New Methods in Police Research
In: Nordisk politiforskning, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 104-123
ISSN: 1894-8693
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In: Nordisk politiforskning, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 104-123
ISSN: 1894-8693
In: Nordisk politiforskning, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 109-111
ISSN: 1894-8693
In: Sosiologisk tidsskrift: journal of sociology, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 291-309
ISSN: 1504-2928
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 29, Heft 8, S. 936-950
ISSN: 1477-2728
In: International journal of social welfare, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 77-88
ISSN: 1468-2397
Frontline workers play a crucial role in implementing activation policies. Nevertheless, research on what competencies are required for activation work is limited. We explored activation competency based on a survey of 1,735 frontline workers in the Norwegian labour and welfare administration. Factor analysis revealed two distinct underlying dimensions in activation competency: market competency and user‐oriented competency. We found that the social workers in the study viewed themselves as having significantly less market competency and slightly more user‐oriented competency than non‐social workers have, but the differences were small. The results also indicate that these effects are partially mediated by attitudes towards conditionality. The results give reason to treat activation competencies as twofold and raise the question of whether social work education improves frontline workers' competency in activation work compared with frontline workers with other educational backgrounds.
In: Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning: TfS = Norwegian journal of social research, Band 58, Heft 4, S. 389-408
ISSN: 1504-291X