‘What about me?’ : An analysis of employers’ engagement with employment service providers in Australia
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Ingold, Joanne, Knox, Angela, Macaulay, Luke and Senewiratne, Sherrica. (2023). ‘What about me?’ : An analysis of employers’ engagement with employment service providers in Australia. Journal of Industrial Relations. 65(3), pp. 251-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856231159512
Authors | Ingold, Joanne, Knox, Angela, Macaulay, Luke and Senewiratne, Sherrica |
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Abstract | This paper examines the under-explored demand-side of active labour market programmes that aim to transition people without jobs into employment. The paper's contribution centres on understanding the benefits that government-funded employment services can offer to employers and how they can work with employment service providers to leverage these. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with employers in Australia, our findings extend pre-existing concepts of employer engagement by illustrating the human resource, corporate social responsibility, and financial benefits to employers of engaging with employment services and how firm size affects their engagement. The findings offer improvements to policymaking and practice to facilitate the effectiveness of employment services in Australia and elsewhere. |
Keywords | employer engagement; active labour market policies; employment services; recruitment |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Journal of Industrial Relations |
Journal citation | 65 (3), pp. 251-273 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. (UK) |
ISSN | 0022-1856 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856231159512 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221856231159512 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 251-273 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 Mar 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 14 Jun 2024 |
Additional information | © Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association (ALERA) 2023 SAGE Publications Ltd, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. |
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
This work was supported by the Deakin Faculty of Business and Law. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
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