This paper addresses the nature of Social Work supervision in the Directorate of
Developmental Welfare Services. It contains five chapters namely Research Orientation,
Literature Review, Social Structure in Namibia, Empirical Study and the last chapter is
the Conclusions and Recommendations.
The Research Orientation deals with motivating factors explaining the need for this
research as well as pointing out the goal and objectives of the research. The goal of the
research is to explore and describe Social Work supervision in the Directorate of
Developmental Welfare Services in Namibia.
The Literature Review gives comprehensive explanations of the importance of Social
Work supervision in delivering social services. It provides opinions of different authors
and their views on the nature of supervision, the supervisory needs of supervisees, and
the functions and roles of supervisors.
The Research Methodology chapter looks at how the research was done, how the
researcher gathered information and the tools that were used. The research data was
examined using the quantitative data analysis approach. Data analysis and interpretation
breaks down the data obtained from the questionnaires, which are the instruments that the
researcher used to obtain the information. The result consists of graphs and tables that
clearly present the data.
This chapter also covers the social structure of Namibia, a brief description of the regions
in Namibia in order to help the reader understand the distances between offices.
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The Conclusions are a summary of the findings obtained from the respondents on the
nature of supervision in the directorate.
Possible solutions to improve supervision in the directorate are addressed in the
recommendations. One of the recommendations is that the directorate should develop
standardised supervisory guidelines.