Employer Engagement

Making Active Labour Market Policies Work

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2300-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, preparation, training and in-work support and development. While policies, programmes and scholarship predominantly focus on jobseekers’ engagement with these initiatives, this book is the first text to shed light on the employer’s perspective.

Bringing together renowned scholars from social and public policy and human resource management, the book draws on empirical research, comparative case studies and real-life examples from practice, providing a comprehensive analysis of this under-explored issue.

This go-to resource will inform HRM and public policy scholarship and promote collaborations between the disciplines.

Jo Ingold is Professor at the Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University. Patrick McGurk is Reader in Management Practice and Associate Dean for Education at Queen Mary University of London.

1 Introduction: Why Is Employer Engagement Important? Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk

PART I The Macro Level: Political Economy and Policies

2 Varieties of Policy Approaches to Employer Engagement in Activation Policies Thomas Bredgaard, Jo Ingold and Rik Van Berkel

3 Political Economy of the Inclusive Labour Market Revisited: Welfare through Work in Denmark David Etherington and Martin Jones

4 Skills, Apprenticeships and Diversity: Employer Engagement With Further and Higher Education Patrick McGurk and Omolola Olaleye

5 Practice Case Study: Programme Commissioning and Co-Opetition in the UK and Australia Orla Baker, Jo Ingold, Emma Crichton and Tony Carr

PART II

The Meso Level: Programmes and Actors

6 the Weakest Link? Job Quality and Active Labour Market Policy in the UK Anne Green and Paul Sissons

7 Opening the Black Box of Promoting Employer Engagement at the Street Level of Employment Services Tanja Dall, Flemming Larsen and Mikkel Bo Madsen

8 Active Labour Market Programmes and Employer Engagement in the UK and Germany Jay Wiggan and Matthias Knuth

9 Practice Case Study: Reconnecting Employee and Employer Engagement Through Continuous Improvement of Policy Andrew Hamilton

PART III

The Micro Level: Workplaces and Their Contexts

10 Who Are the Engaged Employers? Strategic Entry-Level Resourcing in Low-Wage Sectors Patrick McGurk and Richard Meredith

11 HRM and Social Security: It Takes Two To Create a Transitional Labour Market Irmgard Borghouts and Charissa Freese

12 Conditions, Processes and Pressures Promoting Inclusive Organisations Jeffrey Moore and William Hanson

13 Practice Case Study: Sephora’s Journey to an Inclusive Workplace and the ‘Let Us Belong’ Philosophy William Hanson, Jeffrey Moore and Tom Gustafson

14 Conclusion: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work Patrick McGurk and Jo Ingold

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
ISBN-10	1-5292-2300-8 / 1529223008
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-2300-2 / 9781529223002
Zustand	Neuware