Perception of job satisfaction, service effectiveness and burnout among Arab social workers in Israel

Over the past three decades, the topics of job satisfaction and burnout hav e become a major focus of interest in research and professional training in the field of social work. However, there is a serious lack of studies focu sing on these issues in the context of Arab social workers in Israel. This paper presents the results obtained from a subsample of Arab participants i n a national study of Israeli social workers. It focuses on the correlation s between several career outcomes and organizational conditions such as rol e characteristics, work conditions, job mastery, and power. Challenge at wo rk and job mastery were found to be the most significant and consistent pre dictors of the outcome results. The implications of the results are also di scussed.