an article by Hugh T. J. Bainbridge (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) and Yuka Fujimoto (Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) published in British Journal of Management Volume 29 Issue 1 (January 2018)
Abstract
Drawing on interviews with job seekers and expert informants, we outline a model of the job search experience of people with disabilities.
This model specifies the sequence of events involved in the pursuit of paid work and the contextual features that inhibit or facilitate job search attitudes, behaviours, intermediate search outcomes and employment outcomes.
By contrasting the experiences of job seekers with musculoskeletal and sensory disabilities, and outlining the influence of major stakeholders in the form of employment agencies and family members, our model provides the basis for a more nuanced understanding of the job search process.
Finally, we recommend points of intervention that are grounded in data for improving job search outcomes for people with disabilities in general, and for job seekers with musculoskeletal or sensory disabilities specifically.
Full text (PDF 17pp)
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Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Monday, 20 February 2017
No country for young men?
a blog post for the Resolution Foundation by Daniel Tomlinson
In decades gone by paid work was a thing that men did. Families, the world of work and the welfare state were structured to make this the norm. But this mid-20th century certainty is no more. Women in the UK are participating in the labour market in ever greater numbers with the gender employment gap now at a record low. This is good news.
But rising female participation hasn’t been the only big labour market shift over the last 50 years. There has been a massive upheaval in the nature of work carried out too. The classic mid-skilled jobs of the past – secretarial and routine manufacturing jobs – are in long-term decline and won’t be coming back (no matter what President Trump says). This has huge consequences for the career prospects of younger generations (a key theme of our Intergenerational Commission) but also for how different genders experience the world of work.
Continue reading
In decades gone by paid work was a thing that men did. Families, the world of work and the welfare state were structured to make this the norm. But this mid-20th century certainty is no more. Women in the UK are participating in the labour market in ever greater numbers with the gender employment gap now at a record low. This is good news.
But rising female participation hasn’t been the only big labour market shift over the last 50 years. There has been a massive upheaval in the nature of work carried out too. The classic mid-skilled jobs of the past – secretarial and routine manufacturing jobs – are in long-term decline and won’t be coming back (no matter what President Trump says). This has huge consequences for the career prospects of younger generations (a key theme of our Intergenerational Commission) but also for how different genders experience the world of work.
Continue reading
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Mothers and work–life balance: exploring the contradictions and complexities involved in work–family negotiation
an article by Louise Wattis (Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK), Kay Standing (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) and Mara A. Yerkes (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) published in Community, Work & Family Volume 16 Issue 1 (February 2013)
Abstract
This article presents data from a project exploring women’s experiences of work and care.
It focuses primarily on work-life balance as a problematic concept.
Social and economic transformations across advanced post-industrial economies have resulted in concerns about how individuals manage their lives across the two spheres of work and family and achieve a work-life balance. Governments across the European Union have introduced various measures to address how families effectively combine care with paid work.
Research within this area has tended to focus on work-life balance as an objective concept, which implies a static and fixed state fulfilled by particular criteria and measured quantitatively. Qualitative research on women’s experiences reveals work-life balance as a fluctuating and intangible process.
This article highlights the subjective and variable nature of work-life balance and questions taken-for-granted assumptions, exploring problems of definition and the differential coping strategies which women employ when negotiating the boundaries between work and family.
Abstract
This article presents data from a project exploring women’s experiences of work and care.
It focuses primarily on work-life balance as a problematic concept.
Social and economic transformations across advanced post-industrial economies have resulted in concerns about how individuals manage their lives across the two spheres of work and family and achieve a work-life balance. Governments across the European Union have introduced various measures to address how families effectively combine care with paid work.
Research within this area has tended to focus on work-life balance as an objective concept, which implies a static and fixed state fulfilled by particular criteria and measured quantitatively. Qualitative research on women’s experiences reveals work-life balance as a fluctuating and intangible process.
This article highlights the subjective and variable nature of work-life balance and questions taken-for-granted assumptions, exploring problems of definition and the differential coping strategies which women employ when negotiating the boundaries between work and family.
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