Abstract
The profession of social work did not appreciate sufficiently in Japan. One of this reason is it is very difficult to quantify and evaluate social work job. The purpose of this paper is basically to consider what is social work tasks and how to evaluate social work job. Using job analysis methods for social work must be effective for its problem. Because, social work tasks may be specialized and standardized by the application of its methods. Then, the development of its procedure is important to social work profession. This paper presents some tentative plans. And they will be one of indications how to introduce job analysis to social work. For example: a. clarification what is social work tasks b. indication how to specialize and standardize social work tasks c. development of job context worksheet of social work practice d. development of social work service information system data sheet e. development of job evaluation scale Toward the development of scientific methods about social work's job evaluation, this study is to continue to the next step.
