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Socially responsible restructuring
Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers

Table of contents

Foreword................................................................................................................1
Acknowledgements................................................................................................3
Executive summary................................................................................................9
Scope and context ..........................................................................................9
Enterprise restructuring and careers guidance in context.............................10
Career guidance and socially responsible practice.......................................12
Enterprise capacity and collaborations .........................................................14
Innovations and effectiveness.......................................................................17
Issues and implications.................................................................................19
1. The review.....................................................................................................21
1.1. Scope, objectives and methodology ......................................................21
1.2. Report structure .....................................................................................24
2. Enterprise restructuring and career guidance...............................................26
2.1. Enterprise restructuring: recession and structural change.....................26
2.2. Career guidance, employment and employability ..................................30
2.3. Challenges and opportunities of socially responsible practice...............33
2.4. Understanding the national contexts......................................................37
2.5. Public policy and wider area responses in restructuring........................43
2.6. Individuals and restructuring ..................................................................46
2.7. The research challenge: innovation and effectiveness ..........................48
3. Career guidance and socially responsible practice.......................................50
3.1. Delivering career management skills .....................................................50
3.1.1. Delivery, practice and modes of support ....................................51
3.1.2. Purposes and models of guidance .............................................53
3.2. Aiding access for all to guidance services .............................................55
3.2.1. Differentiation in career guidance support..................................56
3.2.2. Support for vulnerable workers...................................................56
3.2.3. Support beyond the workforce....................................................57
3.3. Developing quality assurance in guidance.............................................58
3.3.1. Quality assurance and evaluation ..............................................59
3.3.2. Practitioner competence.............................................................59
3.4. National, regional and local stakeholder cooperation ............................60
4. Enterprise capacity and collaborations .........................................................64
4.1. Enterprise capacity and career guidance...............................................64
4.2. Partnerships and external capacity........................................................65

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