Vocational Rehabilitation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises An Integrated Management Perspective on Potentials and Business Impact

After an accident or severe illness, it may be difficult or even impossible to return to work due to a long absence from work or lasting impairments. In this case, vocational rehabilitation takes place in addition to health-related rehabilitation. There is some evidence in the literature that vocati...

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Otros Autores: Miethlich, Boris, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH 2022.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction . 11
  • 1 The current state of dealt problems inland and abroad . 15
  • 1.1 People with disability and their employment 15
  • 1.1.1 What is a disability? . 15
  • 1.1.2 Historical development of the understanding of disability in society 16
  • 1.1.3 Variants of the integration of people with disabilities into the labour. 18
  • 1.1.4 Success factors of the integration of people with disabilities into the labour 19
  • 1.2 Vocational Rehabilitation 22
  • 1.2.1 Purpose of vocational rehabilitation 22
  • 1.2.2 History of the development of vocational rehabilitation 23
  • 1.2.3 The realisation of Vocational Rehabilitation: A Cooperation between social security
  • and enterprises . 25
  • 1.2.4 Success factors of vocational rehabilitation 28
  • 1.3 Employment of people with disability and vocational rehabilitation 30
  • 1.3.1 Delamination from diversity initiatives 30
  • 1.3.2 Delimitation from other concepts . 31
  • 1.3.3 The economic relevance of the employment of people with disabilities and
  • vocational rehabilitation 32
  • 1.3.4 Political context and relevance of the employment of people with disabilities and
  • vocational rehabilitation 33
  • 1.3.5 Current situation and problems in promoting the employment of people with
  • disabilities and vocational rehabilitation 35
  • 1.4 Corporate Social Responsibility 38
  • 1.4.1 Delimitation from related concepts 39
  • 1.4.2 Company's ripple effect: a model for assessing the impact of socially responsible
  • engagement on society and stakeholders . 40
  • 1.4.3 Benefits of CSR . 41
  • 1.4.4 CSR and Employer branding . 44
  • 1.4.5 Implementation of CRS in enterprises 47
  • 1.5 Employment of PWD and Vocational Rehabilitation as CSR strategy . 48
  • 1.5.1 The current state of research: Employment of PWD and Vocational Rehabilitation
  • as CSR initiatives . 49
  • 1.5.2 Implementation and Success Factors: Employment of PWD and Vocational
  • Rehabilitation as part of the CSR strategy . 51
  • 1.5.3 Benefits of a socially responsible engagement for companies . 54
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  • 1.6 The resource-based view on competitive advantages . 59
  • 1.6.1 VRIO Framework: assessment of competitive advantages 62
  • 1.6.2 Competitive advantages through better use of resources 63
  • 1.6.3 Integrated management models to assess competitive advantages 64
  • 1.7 Summary of the literature overview 67
  • 2 Aim of the scholarly work 71
  • 2.1 The main aim of the scholarly work 71
  • 2.2 Partial aims of the scholarly work . 71
  • 2.3 Deriving and defining the research questions . 72
  • 2.4 Presentation and substantiation of the research theses 73
  • 3 Methodology and research methods . 75
  • 3.1 Characteristics of the examined object 75
  • 3.2 Working methods: Case study research 76
  • 3.3 Method of data obtaining and sources used 79
  • 3.4 Used methods of evaluation and interpretation of results . 81
  • 3.5 Research design . 82
  • 3.6 Operationalisation of the case studies . 83
  • 3.6.1 Deriving the case study protocol and report 83
  • 3.6.2 Presentation of the interview guide 85
  • 3.6.3 Selection of companies for the case studies . 86
  • 4 Empirical data collection and analysis . 89
  • 4.1 Assessing the Literature . 89
  • 4.1.1 Identify the business implications of vocational rehabilitation 89
  • 4.1.2 Interim conclusion 92
  • 4.1.3 Preliminary explanatory model 94
  • 4.2 Conducting the descriptive-explorative case studies . 96
  • 4.2.1 Conducting the within-case analysis 96
  • 4.2.1.1 Case study report NW GmbH . 96
  • 4.2.1.2 Case study report AVT Verpatec GmbH 101
  • 4.2.1.3 Case study report RPM Informatik GmbH . 106
  • 4.2.1.4 Case study report Hämmerli Technik GmbH . 110
  • 4.2.1.5 Case study report Smartpedia GmbH 114
  • 4.2.1.6 Case study report Seminarhotel Lihn Gen. 117
  • 4.2.1.7 Case study report RH Ladenbaumanagement GmbH 124
  • 4.2.2 Conducting the cross-case analysis . 128
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  • 4.2.2.1 The systematisation of the Processes . 128
  • 4.2.2.2 The systematisation of the Structuring factors . 129
  • 4.2.2.3 The systematisation of the Modes of Development 131
  • 4.2.2.4 The systematisation of the Stakeholders . 132
  • 4.2.2.5 The systematisation of the Interaction issues . 135
  • 4.2.2.6 The systematisation of the Environment . 136
  • 4.2.2.7 The systematisation of the Challenges and motivation 138
  • 4.2.2.8 The systematisation of the Expenditure and returns 138
  • 4.2.2.9 The systematisation of Long-term success through CSR strategies . 140
  • 4.2.3 Interim conclusion 142
  • 4.3 Synthesis of literature and case studies . 146
  • 5 Results of the work and discussion . 155
  • 5.1 Overview of the results 155
  • 5.2 An explanatory model of the impact of vocational rehabilitation on
  • business performance 158
  • 5.3 Answering the research questions . 161
  • 5.4 Examination of the research theses . 163
  • 5.5 Discussion of the results and classification in the field of research 163
  • 5.6 Discussion of the method used 166
  • 5.7 Limitations and need for further research . 168
  • 5.8 Benefits for the development of the theory and practice . 169
  • Conclusion 171
  • Bibliography 175
  • Appendices . 197
  • Interview guideline I
  • Transcribed interviews II
  • Qualitative content analysis: codes and their sub-codes . III.