Overview
- An empirical study with employees facing job loss in
- five European countries
Part of the book series: Psychologie sozialer Ungleichheit (PSYCHSU)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Comparative Report WP 2
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Front Matter
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National Reports
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The project is based on interdisciplinary research from five countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, and The Netherlands), in which psychologists and social scientists analysed approaches of occupational transition counselling in the sense of a "social convoy" in the course of dismissal until successful reintegration into the labour market. The empirical research is based primarily on interviews with 250 employees who were affected by changing work environments ("insecure jobs") or who had previously lost their jobs and had found new employment through the help of outplacement/ replacement counselling ("successfully reemployed"). They were questioned with regard to their experiences, expectations and evaluation of the transition period also under the perspective of experienced injustices.
For each country innovative cases of good practice are analyzed where social actors joined in order to cope with redundancy, where specific strategies were developed, e. g. targeting vulnerable groups, or where employers expressed their social responsibility towards dismissed employees in a way that could set an example for the European debate.
About the authors
Prof. Dr. Sebastiano Bagnara is professor of Psychology at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Sassari at Alghero (Italy) and past general secretary of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA).
Prof. Dr. Hans De Witte is professor of Work Psychology at the Department of Psychology (Research Group Work, Organisational & Personnel Psychology, WOPP) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
Prof. Dr. Louis Lemkow is professor of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology also at the UAB.
Prof. Dr. Wilmar Schaufeli is professor of Work and Organizational Psychology and director of the Research Institute Psychology and Health at the Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coping with Occupational Transitions
Book Subtitle: An Empirical Study with Employees Facing Job Loss in Five European Countries
Editors: Thomas Kieselbach, Sebastiano Bagnara, Hans Witte, Louis Lemkow, Wilmar Schaufeli
Series Title: Psychologie sozialer Ungleichheit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91694-1
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Science (German Language)
Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-15237-0Published: 15 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-91694-1Published: 19 November 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 354
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Science