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Socially responsible restructuring
Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers

studies has included Member States with well-established and mature traditions
and professional practice in career guidance for adults, as well as a few where
such services are essentially embryonic. While the economic recession provides
the backcloth of the analysis, the review has included examples of well-
established and more recent restructuring arrangements before the recession,
harnessing career guidance.

1.2. Report structure

This report draws together the findings and implications arising across the
secondary research and the case study analysis in seven chapters that look at:
(a) the contextual evidence of regional and national responses and innovations
in the use and development of career education and training in enterprise
restructuring (Chapter 2);
(b) the effective contribution of career guidance to socially responsible practices
in enterprise, sectoral and local area adjustments to redundancy situations
(Chapter 3);
(c) enterprise capacity for supporting career guidance to at-risk and redundant
employees, and enterprise approaches to extend that capacity through
external partnerships and collaborations (Chapter 4);
(d) current innovations and emerging better practice to help at-risk and
redundant employees reintegrate with employment and to develop the
capacity to cope with change in the labour market and workplace (Chapter
5);
(e) the supporting set of validated case studies presented in Chapter 6;
(f) issues and implications for widening the use and development of innovative
and effective practices which are transferable across diverse cultural,
economic and infrastructural contexts of different Member States
(Chapter 7).
Chapters 3 to 5 seek to draw out some specific illustrations from the
completed case studies. The empirical evidence is substantial, but there are
contrasts between the case studies both in the range and depth of services
provided, and also in the experiences generated; these are also reflected in the
report.
Chapter 7 draws some concluding remarks about the nature and effectiveness
of support services to affected employees in a selection of restructuring
situations, while considering also some policy implications and actions needed to
expand socially responsible practices in restructuring. The last chapter considers

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