<p>Syftet med denna D-uppsats är att undersöka hur den nya betoningen på arbetslinjen påverkat rehabiliteringsarbetet för långtidssjukskrivna med psykisk ohälsa samt arbetets målsättning att öka de sjukskrivnas ”anställbarhet”. Utöver detta ämnar vi även se hur gränsdragningen mellan Arbetsförmedlingen och Försäkringskassan gällande individernas anställbarhet formas i praktiken. Vi har valt att genomföra en fallstudie med hjälp av kvalitativa djupintervjuer från det relevanta projektet och problematiserat dessa empiriska resultat med teoretiska perspektiv passande för vårt problemområde.</p><p>Studien bygger på dominerande teorier inom området anställbarhet och domänkonflikter men har även inslag av teorier ifrån områden såsom strukturfunktionalism. Arbetslinjens betoning i socialförsäkringspolitiken antyder en förändrad mentalitet rörande hanteringen av långtidssjukskrivna, framför allt med psykisk ohälsa. Försäkringskassan och Arbetsförmedlingen arbetar med olika förutsättningar för att nå liknande mål vilket kan resultera i domänkonflikter rörande vad som karaktäriserar en anställbar respektive icke-anställbar individ. I projektet har man genom dialog med projektmedlemmarna konkretiserat de individuella dimensionerna av begreppet anställbarhet genom framväxten av en modell – den s.k. SMAK-modellen.</p><p>Den nya betoningen på arbetslinjen resulterar i ett hårdare rehabiliteringsklimat för de långtidssjukskrivna i kontakt med Försäkringskassan samt en ansvarsförskjutning rörande deras ohälsa. Projektet i fråga har med hjälp av den framväxande modellen SMAK givit begreppet anställbarhet en praktisk innebörd för deltagarna. Gränsdragningen mellan de två myndigheterna med anställbarhet som vattendelare kan verka problematisk med de två skilda målsättningarna som myndigheterna har och då ingen myndighet formellt har huvudansvaret för en individs rehabilitering, dock har inte vår fallstudie kunnat påvisa att dessa problem varit rådande för det studerade projektet.</p> / <p>The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the new emphasis on the swedish work model and it’s results in the rehabilitation work preformed in the swedish social security agency with the aim of increasing the patients “employability”. Apart from this we also intend to study the establishing of boundaries between the social security agency and the unemployment agency when it comes to a person working capacity and the practical formation of individual employability.</p><p>We have chosen to conduct an empirical survey through a qualitative case study. This case study has been made through several interviews with project members. We have then analyzed these results in relation to theoretical perspectives we view relevant for our area of study.</p><p>The thesis is based on dominating theories in the area of rehabilitation and social roles but also has certain influence from theories deriving from the establishing of boundaries and the conflicts arising between the boundaries.</p><p>The emphasis of the work model in swedish social security signals a changed mentality in the rehabilitation of the sick-listed, especially those suffering from mental disorders. The social security and unemployment agencies work under different conditions and with different aims which in turn can lead to conflicts in regards to their areas of responsibility. In the studied project the staff has, through dialogue, preformed a concrete approach as to what characterizes the individual dimensions of employability through the emergence of the so-called SMAK-model.</p><p>The new accentuation on the aforementioned work model has resulted in a harsher climate for the sick-listed as well as a relocation of the responsibility affiliated with their sickness. The studied project has, with the help of the SMAK-model, given the debated term ”employability” a practical significance of individual dimension for the participants of the project. The formation of boundaries between the two agencies can seem problematic in regards to their different aims and fields of expertise and lack of formal responsibility for the rehabilitation of an individual, yet we have not been able to decipher any such problems existing in our studied project.</p>

<p>The purpose of the study was to examine if preferred stereotypical leadership and gender could predict women’s employability to leading positions. The survey, which was selfconstructed containing a scenario module was conducted on co-workers (N=97) in the Vaxjo area. The result showed that the female candidate in the scenario was preferred as leader prior to the male candidate. However, there were no gender differences between the male and female participants’ preferred stereotypical leadership. The findings did not support the hypotheses.</p>

This study sets out the policy frameworks concerning older workers in Sweden and the Netherlands. This will be done by setting out both European and national contextual backgrounds. Further this study will examine whether or not there are specific initiatives taken by trade unions, and if so, what their features are. The results are gathered through a qualitative document analysis, complemented with the results of a self-completion questionnaire that has been sent to trade union confederations. The results of this study show that in both Sweden and the Netherlands policies are in place that strengthen the position of older workers. Sweden has developed multiple policies that aim to motivate people to work longer than the age of 61, and is focused on increasing the employability of workers. Even though in the Netherlands early retirement opportunities were widespread, currently policies and pension reforms discourage people from retiring early. Further, the debate about participation in and access to lifelong learning has regained importance, which shows that there is an increased attention for the development of employability of (older) workers. When it comes to trade unions, in Sweden there are no specific initiatives aiming at older workers. In the Netherlands, on the contrary, all trade unions participate in the development of i.e. the Policy Agenda 2020.

The purpose of this study was to propose and test a comprehensive model ofmarketability using both individual and situational predictors. Participants in thisstudy were members of professional associations and were recruited from internetlistserves. They consisted of 485 employees and 176 co-workers. This study used amatching technique to link participant and co-worker data and was the first study toassess multiple perspectives of marketability. Results demonstrated the relationshipsof human capital variables, positivity traits, proactive career behaviors, thenvironment and industry characteristics on internal and external marketability.Interestingly, not all predictors related to both internal and external marketabilityuniformly, suggesting that the two constructs may have different consequences.

The thesis explores the career decisions of a case of graduates who have completed a Bioscience and Chemistry double major award. The study seeks to explore the careers these graduates have entered, and the factors influencing their choice. The study also looked into the extent of the link between the jobs and the disciplines studied. The career path taken was also explored. The findings of the study will enhance better preparation of future graduates for diversified careers. This study used mixed methods to collect and analyse data. The first part of this study used a questionnaire to quantify those factors that influenced the career decisions. The second part of the study employed a qualitative method. Specifically, interviews of eleven graduates selected from the initial quantitative study provided a data source for developing a deeper understanding about their career decisions. The integration of results from the quantitative and qualitative methods provided in-depth answers for the five research questions. The study shows that 30% of graduates surveyed were with discipline-related jobs, 50 % with jobs somewhat related to their curriculum and 20 % with discipline- unrelated jobs. Reasons for choosing non-discipline-related jobs were: being bored with routine laboratory jobs, having low salaries, being confined to the laboratory or lack of job opportunities. Cognitive values were considered to be more important than environmental and affective values in career choice. The factors considered to be most important were opportunity for growth, having interesting jobs, having a considerate boss, and having job responsibility. Financial rewards were ranked 14 out of 32 factors. Influences from family and lecturers were not as important. However employability skills played a role in career choice. The study concluded that career decision-making is a complicated process. The findings of this study may contribute to the literature of career choice of science graduates in Malaysia, and have implications for the practice and future research in the innovative careers of science graduates.

The main research question that this paper aims to answer is: ‘In what does today’s attack on humanities consist and how can humanities be defended?’ In order to answer this research question, one needs first to describe how the humanities have argued for their usefulness before the Bologna Process; second, provide reasons for the claim that the Bologna Process would be a new type of attack; and third, analyse the new defences for the humanities, so as to discuss whether these are suitable.   There are several arguments why employability should not be the main interpretation for ‘usefulness’ in education. Some authors argue that the focus on employability is a good excuse for European governments to give up on regulating the labour market, and instead transfer the responsibility on the citizens’ shoulders. If being employed is construed as having employable skills, then the state can only invest in training those skills and, after the education is over, if there are still unemployed people, it means it is their fault they were unemployable. A current debate concerns whether the labour market is too regulated or unregulated; this debate should benefit from taking into account the construction of ‘employability’ through the educational policies in the BP. Others have argued that by constructing the set of employable skills as a response to the demands of today’s labour market, this leaves the future employees incapable of meeting the changed demands in tomorrow’s labour market. Some argue that the labour market’s demands cannot be predicted in principle, and therefore people should construct their life around life-long learning, discarding old skills and gaining new ones as they age. However, this model is oblivious to the fact that a future of the labour market may be dominated by automation, as argued by Luciano Floridi. Employment in sectors of the economy that we today think of as important may not be where the jobs will be created tomorrow. What will it mean in the future for people to have a fulfilling and purposeful life when employment will be reduced to just a few hours a week? We need to remain open to the possibility that the good life of the future will not be the (self-)employed life, the active and mobile model proposed now by the EU. People will need to be active in other fields, not strictly related to bread-winning. Other capacities will need to be used in order to make use of one’s time, and these capacities are now dropped from education in order to construct the employable European citizen.    The Bologna ideal of education is more perishable than what first meets the eye. It is connected with a certain view of what it means to be employable, of what the future labour market’s needs will be, and its time dimension is quite narrow. In order to face the challenges of the future labour markets, as BP had claimed it prepares its students to do, one needs a wider understanding of what it means to have a good life. One way of defending the humanities is to claim that it is equivalent to defending a plurality of educational purposes, the right to build one’s life based on an education that is not submitted to the political goals of the day, ultimately the right to have a dissenting voice and a different perspective on life. The main finding of this study was to show that, before deciding what type of education society needs, we need to understand who we are educating through our universities. Taking a stance on “who should we educate?” is prior to being able to judge educational policies. This decision requires a previous justification that requires arguments taken from the field of social justice: Who needs to be educated and who has the right to be educated? Furthermore, we have seen that all answers we have examined to the question underlying educational policies, i.e. ‘who is being educated?’, were linked at some level with the citizenship issue. By defining who is a full citizen, an answer to the question who had the right to a humanistic education was implicitly answered. Nussbaum’s project to universalise the definition of democratic citizenship would ensure a basis for providing humanistic education for all. Such a line of arguing would provide humanities to the well-regarded status they had starting from the Renaissance times, but this time not as a device for exclusion, but inclusion for all. We have tried to show that, by defending the humanities, one defends the idea of a plurality of educational purposes, the right to build one’s life based on an education that is not submitted to the political goals of the day, ultimately the right to have a dissenting voice and a different perspective on life. By defending humanities, one defends the true ‘usefulness’ of education, namely its potential for constructing democratic citizenship for all.

Globally, employees are experiencing extensive change in the workplace. Downsizing, right-sizing or restructuring have become familiar terms in difficult economic conditions and imply that rationalising of jobs is inevitable. Organisations attempt to reduce costs, which in turn places pressure on employees to modify their jobs and seek alternative employment. This increases their intention to leave (Iyo & Brotheridge, 2004). The researcher is interested in determining how satisfied employees are with their life in general, in their jobs, and whether the constructs at hand can lead to an intention to leave. This is information that an organisation might value due to high turnover costs. Employability and autonomy are linked to the above concepts. With reference to the above formulation of the problem statement, the general objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the psychological contract, employability, autonomy, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and the intention to leave of security employees in the Vaal Triangle. The primary objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the psychological contract, employability, autonomy, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and the intention to leave of security employees in the Vaal Triangle. A cross-sectional survey design was used. Constructs were measured by means of the psychological contract (employer obligations, employee obligations), a biographical questionnaire, employability questionnaire, autonomy questionnaire, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and intention to leave questionnaires. The research method for each of the two articles consists of a brief literature review and an empirical study. An exploratory factor analysis, as well as Cronbach alpha coefficients, was computed to access the reliability. Validity of the different product moment correlation coefficients and regression analysis were used to examine the relationship between the constructs employed in this research. Significant differences are found between various individual characteristics and the scores of the psychological contract (employer obligations, employee obligations and the psychological contract), the individual characteristics, employability, autonomy, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and intention to leave. Conclusions are made, limitations of the current research are discussed and recommendations for future research and the organisation are put forward. / MCom, Labour Relations Management, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2012

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (University of Texas Digital Repository, viewed on Sept. 9, 2009). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. S.)--University of Canterbury, 2010. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-62). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T20:32:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Raquel Aparecida da Silva.pdf: 543057 bytes, checksum: 7b8589f66bdb999dcc632ecb85365068 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The general purpose of the present study is the evaluation of CAIXA ECONÔMICA FEDERAL´s Programa Adolescente Aprendiz, from both the Teenagers and Instructors points of view. The study approaches corporate social responsibility concerning the mentioned program, that is, focusing on matters such as unemployment and workforce-entry conditions for young people originated from low-income families. The technical procedure of the research was case study, in a quali-quantitative approach. The research was performed in two parts: the first one a bibliographical study, of an exploratory nature, and the second one a field research, proceeded by the means of two questionnaires answered by the main actors of the program: the apprentices and the instructors. The result of the survey, confronted with the information from the theoretical studies, made it possible to assert that the investigated company, though coping with day-to-day problems, has been trying to incorporate the model of management with social responsibility in its chain of relationships, especially in relation to the commitment undertook in its strategic planning, of supporting projects of employment generation and to enhance employability skills in the community it relates to. As an overview, it is possible to say that the evaluation made by the teenagers and instructors was very positive, in the sense that the participation in the Program develops employability skills and facilitates future workforce-entry. / O presente estudo tem como objetivo geral avaliar o Programa Adolescente Aprendiz implantado na Caixa Econômica Federal. O trabalho aborda a responsabilidade social empresarial na perspectiva do referido Programa, ou seja, com foco na problemática do desemprego e da inserção dos jovens oriundos de famílias de baixa renda no mercado de trabalho O procedimento técnico utilizado na pesquisa foi o estudo de caso, dentro de uma abordagem quali-quantitativa. A pesquisa foi realizada em duas etapas: a primeira bibliográfica, de caráter exploratório, e a segunda uma pesquisa de campo, instrumentalizada por dois questionários respondidos pelos principais atores do Programa: os aprendizes e os orientadores. Os resultados da pesquisa de campo, confrontados com as informações da fundamentação teórica permitiram verificar que a empresa investigada, apesar de algumas dificuldades encontradas no dia-a-dia, tem procurado incorporar o modelo de gestão da responsabilidade social em toda a sua cadeia de relacionamentos, especialmente em razão do compromisso assumido em seu planejamento estratégico, de oferecer apoio a projetos de geração de empregos e fortalecer a empregabilidade para a comunidade na qual se encontra inserida. De um modo geral, a avaliação efetuada pelos adolescentes e orientadores foi bastante positiva, no sentido de que a participação no Programa melhora a condição de empregabilidade e favorece uma futura inserção no mercado de trabalho.