Empirical Study of Relationship between Internal Governance and Job Performance in Social Work Organizations based on CSWLS 2019

Abstract

China Social Work Dynamics Survey is abbreviated as CSWLS. Internal governance of social work is a basic prerequisite to build its modern social organization system and stimulate the vitality of social work organizations. Given the scarcity of empirical studies on the internal governance of social work agencies, an urgency arises to examine how the internal governance mechanism of social work agencies operates and to what extent it affects the performance of social work agencies. This study uses a multiple regression data analysis model to analyze data from a survey of 691 social work agencies covering 56 cities of varying sizes across China implemented by East China University of Science and Technology in 2019. Internal governance of board governance capacity, departmental staff complexity, party branch governance, institutional system, and talent development were found to significantly affect their performance. This study also considers internal governance of social organizations as a meso-level at the theoretical level and introduces it into the macro-level social governance sharing pattern, which is more innovative and academically valuable in its theoretical perspective. At the empirical level, academic results of this study on the growth resilience and autonomy of social organizations are also more meaningful for subsequent organizations to participate more deeply in the social pattern of shared social governance.