Employer engagement : making active labour market policies work / edited by Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingold, Jo, author.

Contributor:

McGurk, Patrick, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manpower policy.

Employees--Recruiting.

Employees.

Unemployed--Government policy.

Unemployed.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work into work through a range of interventions including job search, training and in-work support and development. While policies and scholarship predominantly focus on jobseekers' engagement with these initiatives, this book sheds light for the first time on the employer's perspective.

Contents:

Front Cover

Employer Engagement: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Why Is Employer Engagement Important?

Outline of the book

Notes

References

Part I The Macro Level: Political Economy and Policies

2 Varieties of Policy Approaches to Employer Engagement in Activation Policies

Introduction

Activation policies and employer engagement

Varieties of policy approaches to employer engagement

Policy approaches to employer engagement in the UK, Denmark and The Netherlands

The regulation approach

The facilitation approach

The negotiating approach

Conclusions

Note

3 Political Economy of the Inclusive Labour Market Revisited: Welfare through Work in Denmark

Denmark as a redistributive model?

Collective bargaining and social dialogue

Unemployment Insurance Funds

Preserving the social safety net

Labour market governance, social partners and Jobrotation

Jobrotation and the business model

Jobrotation and 'social clauses'

Economic and COVID crisis, challenges and opportunities

4 Skills, Apprenticeships and Diversity: Employer Engagement with Further and Higher Education

Employer roles in further and higher education in England

Apprenticeships: employers as co-producers

Apprenticeship employers as promoters of workforce diversity

5 Practice Case Study: Programme Commissioning and Co-opetition in the UK and Australia

Paths to collaboration in the UK and Australia

The ReAct Partnership in the UK

The Magpies Next Generation Project in Inner Melbourne, Australia

Conclusion

References.

Part II The Meso Level: Programmes and Actors

6 The Weakest Link? Job Quality and Active Labour Market Policy in the UK

Context

Creating good work

Labour market trends

ALMP in the UK

The development of ALMP in the UK

Employment sustainability and progression within ALMP

New directions for employment progression

Employer engagement in ALMP

The employer engagement function in ALMP

Employer engagement and job quality - developing a more productive partnership?

Assessment and discussion

7 Opening the Black Box: Promoting Employer Engagement at the Street Level of Employment Services

Employer engagement and workplace training in Danish ALMPs

Data

Employers' role in active labour market programmes

Integrated approaches in ALMP research

Supported employment approaches

Developing employer engagement at the street level

Establishing contact with employers

Creating engagement and motivation to participate

Establishing a match

Developing the capacity for inclusion

Transitions into employment

8 Active Labour Market Programmes and Employer Engagement in the UK and Germany

Labour market trends and employment service institutions

Employer recruitment practices and perceptions of claimants

Integrative capacity of employers and PES policy instruments

9 Practice Case Study: Reconnecting Employee and Employer Engagement through Continuous Improvement of Policy

Australian disability employment policy

National Disability Insurance Scheme

Supported employment

Policy implementation: case study

Implementation challenges and learnings: case study

Overcoming challenges: implementation of the learnings.

Implications for employer engagement in the future

Part III The Micro Level: Workplaces and Their Contexts

10 Who Are the Engaged Employers? Strategic Entry-Level Resourcing in Low-Wage Sectors

Who are the engaged employers?

A model of strategic entry-level resourcing

Case study: strategic entry-level resourcing at 'Midstore'

Partnership with the intermediary

Local HR practices

Sustainability of engagement: a tale of four stores

Analysis of influencing factors

11 HRM and Social Security: It Takes Two to Create a Transitional Labour Market

Expanding SHRM: inclusive HRM

Social security

Transition-inclusive HRM-labour market model

Unemployment prevention and employment security: the new security

Conclusion and discussion

12 Conditions, Processes and Pressures Promoting Inclusive Organizations

Leadership models and challenges to inclusiveness

Complexity leadership theory

Conditions

Adaptive processes

Corporate examples

Pressures

Policy considerations for adaptability

13 Practice Case Study: Sephora's Journey to an Inclusive Workplace and the 'Let Us Belong' Philosophy

An inclusive workplace with a diversity of disabilities

Inclusion intelligence: Sephora inclusive roadmap

Vision casting

Building the bridge to inclusion

Launch: creating a new culture

Optimize

Results of the four-stage inclusion roadmap

Productivity metrics

Impact of employees with disabilities on the team

Lessons and implications for inclusive employer engagement

14 Conclusion: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work

General lessons from the country cases

Bounded voluntarism.

Connections to wider political-economic changes involving worker security and job quality

Local collaborative relationships

The intersection of macro, meso and micro levels of ALMPs

Macro-level employer engagement

Meso-level employer engagement

Micro-level employer engagement

Future research agenda

Index.

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ISBN:

9781529223033

1529223032

9781529223019

1529223016

9781529223026

1529223024

OCLC:

1370496635