Vocational Rehabilitation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises : : An Integrated Management Perspective on Potentials and Business Impact / / Boris Miethlich.

• VerfasserIn: Miethlich, Boris,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Germany : : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (413 pages)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.