Community Organization (CO) & Role of a Social Worker ~ Social Work Educator

Introduction

When a group of people come together dwells a definite territory and shares some common idiosyncratic characteristics is called community. Human being is a social animal and loves to live in a society. Community is a social unity. The terms group, community and community organisation are not the same. Basically a group is an assembly of individuals whereas a community is a accumulation of groups. The community is a social coherence having some basic features like:- Community Sentiment, Particular Name, Group, Locality, Permanency and Similarity etc.

What is community organisation?

Community organisation defines when a community being organized for improving the community’s spiritual, cultural, economical, social health, education, geographical and overall function of the community.

There are large numbers of definitions has been given by many authors on Community Organisation. The two definitions on Community Organisation are given below.

1. Murray G Ross, "Community organisation is a process by which a community identifies its needs or objectives, gives priority to them, funds resources to deal with them and in doing so, extends and develops cooperative and collaborative attitude and practices in the communities."

2. Kramer and Specht, "They defined that "Community organisation refers to intervention where a professional change agent helps a community action systems composed of individuals, groups or organization to engage in planned collection action in order to deal with special problems within the democratic system of values".

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Characteristics of community organisation

There are eight characteristics of a community organisation should have and those are as given below

Its nature should be related to only and only to the community and its problems
There should be a goal and objectives in the community organization
To achieve the goal there should be a set of principle in the community organization
The members should respect the values and functions of the community
The objective should be related to the social welfare of the people
There should be good interpersonal and intergroup relationship in the community organization
Community organization goal setting should be identified in the need basis
The members should cooperate and collaborate to its activities to achieve the organization goal

Concept of Community Organisation

Community Organisation concept can be understood in three aspects as follows:-

1. Community organisation helps to solve the problems

Since the community is the accumulation of groups have different thoughts, feelings and Ideas. Sometimes it creates conflicts in the community and kills the peace and harmony in the community. The community is being organized because there are problems in the community. The simplest meaning of community organisation is to help the community and solve its problems. The main objective of the community organization is to strengthen the community and to develop the capacity of the community to be more organized and will solve its problems by own.

2. Community organisation guided by set of principles

Just collection of individuals or groups in a particular place can not be called organized. The community organization is well established with some set of principles and social norms and condition. It increases the values of the community, teaches disciplines and makes free from corruption, nepotism and exploitation. An individual or the organization there should be a set of principles and it will guide the growth and development of an individual or community.

3. Community organisation designs a social structure

Community is a group of individuals and it is not organized. A community will be called as community organisation when it ensure the following components: Interaction among people, resolve the community issues, formation of new groups, integration of the exciting institution, institute to meet the changing condition.

Social worker in community organisation

Role of a social worker in the community organisation

The professional and skillful social worker plays a vital role in community organisation. He tries to help himself and guide the community to lead a satisfactory life style. The community organization worker should have full knowledge of self and community. The community organisation worker plays different role in the community.

As a Mentor

The community organisation worker’s primary role is to guide the community, to help the community to establish the goals and find out the means of achieving those goals. He assists the community to find out the resources and show the path of success of community organisation. To achieve the objectives of the community the social worker should be acceptable and loveable by the people. He guide the community what to do and what not to do. He clarifies to the community regarding his purpose, objectives, activities and means of achieving it. He acts as guidance for the community to achieve their objectives. He takes the success and the failure with him as a true mantor.

As an Enabler

The second important role of a social worker in the community organisation is to enable to the community. He simplifies the whole process and solves the conflict raised in the community. He identifies the problems, dissatisfactions, conflicts between the groups and solves it with effectively. He promotes the interpersonal relationship within and between the groups and creates the harmonica relations among the community. He always guide the community in a positively to achieve the community goals.

As an skillful professional

A social worker is an experience and skillful person to advocate the social issues and resolve on it. He follows the research data, material, methodology, and technical experience to achieve his goal. He is expert of community diagnosis, research skills, information about the community, technical information and evaluation process.

As an Social counselor

The social worker has the full knowledge about the nature, functions and characteristics of the community. As a social counselor he tries to eliminate the negative thoughts and conflicts from the community and brings them in a organisational manner to achieve the community’s objective.

Functions of community organisation

A professional social workers performs many activities under community organisation they are as follows

Coordination function

A social worker knows the needs and resource availability of its community. The community is based on diversity of groups and thoughts. The social workers balance the diversity and respect the integrity of the community to achieve the goal of the community.

Research function

The social worker is good researcher he always search different alternatives programmes to achieve the community goal. He chose the best programme for the community since he has close information and knowledge about the community.

Leadership and promotional function

The social worker is good leader and he promotes leadership quality among the members of the community. He motives and guides the members to achieve the community organisational goal. He encourages the community members to solve the problems collectively. The social worker engages the members in different activities in the community and it boosts the member’s inner leadership quality.

Administrative function

Success of any welfare programmes the administration function plays a vital role. The social worker plays as an efficient administrator in the community organization to discharge the administrative function. As an administrator he provides office and administration support to either the team or the individual member. The administration function is more important for the smooth running of the programmes in the community organisation.

Coordination between different programmes

The social worker is a skillful coordinator and he tries to maintain the coordination between the members and programmes. The main motive of the social worker is to execute the multitude of programmes to achieve the community organisational goal. He thinks scientifically and coordinate the programmes a systematic so that the programme will not be overlapping or left out any programmes.

Development of community consciousness

The major function of a social worker is to spread awareness among the community members. In the community there are many groups existing and they have different of ideas, views and thoughts etc. As a social worker he should be a great communicator and influencer to convey the organisation’s mission and vision to the community members.

Evaluation of programme

The social worker reviews his programmes and evaluates his achievement. He gets energetic by having reviewed to his programmes and he aspires to improve the programmes. He collect the feedbacks from the members of the community and accepts it positively to develop his action plan.

Social worker skills in community organisation

The community organisation worker should cultivate the following skills to perform his role successfully to accomplish the community organisational goal.

He/She should have the experience to work with people
He/She should have the philosophy of community organisation
He/She should have sound working knowledge of community organisation
He/She should have respect to the social integrate
He/She should have practical knowledge of community organisation
He/She should adjust the emotional balance in the community
He/She should have the leadership quality to lead the community
He/She should have communication skills to influence the people

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