ABSTRACT
Social work is a profession in which care and the promotion of human flourishing can be subordinated to agendas of risk management and control. An emphasis on risk management and control not only concerns work with service users but can permeate into professional supervisory relationships. This chapter explores, from a manager’s perspective, how professional supervision can facilitate flourishing of both individual staff and the teams or programs in which they work. However, this may require a radical rethinking of the rationale and methods for providing professional supervision, so that it is incorporated into, rather than divorced from, organizational leadership.
