This study traced the history of the outplacement industry from 1960 to 1997 through the stories of seven outplacement firms, the three organizations that emerged from the industry and the changes that occurred in the design and delivery of outplacement services. The history was studied in the context of the changes that occurred in the social and economic environment that formed the American workplace between 1960 and 1997 and the subsequent impact those changes had on corporations, their employees and the outplacement industry. Outplacement has its roots in the job search counseling service designed and delivered by Bernard Haldane following WW II to assist veterans with their reentry into the post war workplace. In the 1960s, entrepreneurs expanded Haldane's service to include consulting with corporate managers on how to terminate employees, remove them from corporate payrolls and support their job search efforts until they found new positions. They called this service outplacement. The primary data for this study came from personal interviews with industry founders, leaders and practitioners, the archives of the AOCFI, industry newsletters and published materials. The study traced the changes that occurred in the reasons corporations purchased outplacement services and the affect those changes had on the way corporations bought and distributed outplacement services for their terminated employees. The study traced modifications outplacement firms made to their services in response to corporate demands and the affect those changes had on the future of the industry. The study traced the evolution of outplacement services from a personal consulting service to a new curriculum of learning resources from which corporate buyers of outplacement services selected services to meet the diverse learning needs of terminated employees. The study traced the growth and decline of the industry, the subsequent impact on the industry's trade, professional member and certification organizations and the difficulties those organizations experienced as they attempted to respond to their members changing needs. This study traces a history of the industry from the collected stories of industry founders, leaders, practitioners and industry archives and relates those stories to the rise and decline of the outplacement industry. / Ed. D.

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Transfergesellschaften sind ein Instrument an der Schnittstelle von Arbeitsmarktpolitik und betrieblicher Personalpolitik. Mit der Insolvenz der Schlecker-Drogeriemarktkette im Jahr 2012 wurden erstmals die technisch-organisatorischen Schwierigkeiten thematisiert, die mit der Implementation von Transferangeboten für bundesweit tätige Unternehmen des Einzelhandels mit mehreren tausend Beschäftigten verbunden sind. Der Gegenstand der Fallstudie ist die Arbeit des Trägers START NRW GmbH (im Folgenden: START) im Rahmen der Praktiker/Max-Bahr Transfergesellschaften.Im Zentrum dieser Studie stehen sowohl die Perspektive der Teilnehmer_innen wie auch aus der Sicht der Berater_innen von START. Die Bewertung und Analyse der Transferberatung schließt die Charakteristika der Beschäftigten ebenso mit ein wie die strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen dieser spezifischen Transfergesellschaft, die in einem Verbund aus sechs Trägern eingebettet war. Die Fallstudie untersucht die psychosoziale Unterstützung in der Beratungsbeziehung zwischen Teilnehmer_in und Berater_in nach dem Arbeitsplatzverlust. Schließlich benennt die Fallstudie ausgewählte begünstigende Faktoren und Entwicklungspotentiale für das Praktiker-Transferprojekt und zukünftige Transfergesellschaften. / Transfer companies are an instrument at the interface of labor market policy and company personnel policy. With the bankruptcy of the Schlecker drugstore chain in 2012, the organizational difficulties associated with the implementation of job-to-job transitions for nationwide retail companies with several thousand employees were discussed for the first time. The subject of this study is the work of the promoter START NRW GmbH ('START') within the framework of the Praktiker / Max-Bahr transfer company. The focus of the case study is both the perspective of the participants and the perspective of the START consultants. The evaluation and analysis of the transfer companies includes the characteristics of the employees as well as the structural conditions of this specific transfer company, which was embedded in a network of six institutions. The case study examines psychosocial support in the counseling relationship between participant and counselor after job loss. Finally, the case study identifies selected facilitating factors and development potentials for the Praktiker transfer project and future job-to-job-transitions.