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Question:
An agency is required by its funder to make extensive modifications to its human resource policies. The agency director is worried about the financial health of the agency and reports that the agency does not have the money to hire someone to complete this task. The social worker’s wife is a human resource manager at a large corporation and agrees to work with the agency for a few weeks at a deeply discounted rate in order to meet the requirements. According to the Code of Ethics, this situation is:
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Unethical because it represents a conflict of interest
explanation
The NASW Code of Ethics indicates that consultation should follow all ethical standards, including avoiding conflicts of interest and maintaining boundaries. In the case vignette, the social worker’s wife making changes to the agency’s personnel policies that impact her husband is clearly a conflict of interest. Breaching this standard should not be justified because the situation appears desperate and other resources are not evident. It remains a conflict of interest whether the wife charges for her services or not.
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