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The postwar period of the rapid social change has brought not only a specific framework in which social work develops but it has also brought ever increasing complex social problems that require new methods of work and different approaches. Legislative regulations, high demands and expectations of skilled workers, and present lack of interest of the social work centers management for the organization of work that will be the core support for the worker; weak personal and professional capacities of experts and therefore their motivation to work. In the theoretical part of this paper, traditional and modern scientific approaches have been researched with a special reference to the process of promoting and rewarding employees and how does it influence their motivation to work. In addition, an empirical research has been conducted, whose aim was to look at the role and significance of remuneration by the manager on the motivation of skilled workers in social work centers in Republic of Srpska. The survey encompassed 252 skilled workers at 41 Center for Social Work in Republic of Srpska, which is considered to be a representative sample in comparison with the population. The results of the theoretical analysis of the empirical research suggest that the level of motivation of workers depends half on the age of workers and the other half on their working age, that in most social work centers in Republic of Srpska there is no rewarding system established, that managers mostly approach the use of material rewards on the payroll, that the intangible forms of reward are missing, that experts are exposed to great challenges of professional activity which causes workers to be demotivated and that by self-perception of workers, rewarding can raise the motivation of workers to a higher level. Furthermore, it implies that the initial assumption of the paper is confirmed by the fact that rewarding can have a strong influence on support, it has a certain role in motivating skilled workers in social work centers in Republic of Srpska
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