Kirsten Sehnbruch uses the case study of Chile to show the failures and inner-working of neo-liberal labour policy. She shows in detail what the real policy issue should be, namely the creation of proper institutions and of a corps of competent professionals with relevant skills and powers to...

"Alan Coppin is a rare individual. His experience and insight span private and public sectors, charities, and the Armed Forces. The vital importance of human capital is the thread which has bound all this together. His book is a rich gold mine of data, research, wisdom and anecdote." -Sir Gerry...

This edited collection offers a nontraditional approach to diversity management, going beyond gender, race, and ethnicity. Examining ageism, disability, and spirituality, the book provides a discussion of different D&I applications and introduces a framework consisting of a diagnostic phase, gap...

In this book, Fauri and Tedeschi bring together contributions that outline the movement of job seekers and ethnic minority entrepreneurs in Europe, all with the aim of analysing the overall impact of different forms of migration on European economies in the last hundred years. Contributions...

Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit. In today’s world, the link between mobility and security issues is ever-increasing....

This book investigates the potential of the Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) as an instrument of active labour market policy for re-turning the unemployed to the labour market. SLs are mostly small and micro enterprises and a qualified form of the conventional corporation, majority-owned by...

In diesem Buch nimmt Andreas Landes Unternehmen, die Kernakteure des Arbeitsmarktes, als zentrale Orte des gesellschaftlichen Integrationsprozesses in den Blick und erarbeitet anhand von Fallstudien in vier KMU ein organisationszentriertes Integrationsmodell an der Schnittstelle zwischen...

Dieses essential zeigt praxisnah, wie eine gelungene Unterstützung von Flüchtlingen und Migranten bei deren Bewältigung der integrationsbedingten Anforderungen in eine für sie neue und unbekannte Kultur und Gesellschaft geleistet werden kann. Es werden die Herausforderungen auf Seiten der...