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‘What about me?’ : An analysis of employers’ engagement with employment service providers in Australia
Ingold, Joanne Knox, Angela Macaulay, Luke Senewiratne, Sherrica
Ingold, Joanne
Knox, Angela
Macaulay, Luke
Senewiratne, Sherrica
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
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
65
Issue
3
Page Range
251-273
Article Number
ACU Department
Peter Faber Business School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Relation URI
Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
© 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.
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.