Snipp snapp snut, så var samverkan slut? - En studie om hur socialtjänsten upplever samverkan med arbetsförmedlingen

The aim of this study is to understand how social workers whose mission is to investigate people's right to financial aid, experience collaboration with Sweden’s employment agency, Arbetsförmedlingen. The reason the authors of this study chose specifically collaboration with Arbetsförmedlingen is due to the reorganization of offices around the country. In order to understand how the organizations operate, collaboration theory and organization theory was studied. Furthermore, both national and international collaboration studies and cases were researched. Interviews of five social workers were conducted by meeting them in person. By recording and transcribing the interviews the authors were able to analyse them by coding. The results of the interview show that due to the reorganization of Arbetsförmedlingen, the social workers experience difficulties of collaboration. Social workers state that it is hard to pursue the work assignments and to help the clients as smooth as possible. Furthermore the social workers fear a concern to the privatization of Arbetsförmedlingen and that this will lead to an even further lack of collaboration. The conclusion of this study issues that it is prior to make sure the collaboration between social workers and the case workers at Arbetsförmedlingen has good standards. A functional collaboration would ease not only the social workers nor the case workers, but the clients. Should Arbetsförmedlingen reorganize the reorganization in order to solve the obvious problem of collaboration