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Socially responsible restructuring
Effective strategies for supporting redundant workers

alone service and in underpinning the effectiveness of other parallel services,
such as vocational training to upgrade workers’ skills and employability.
This review has explored the nature, and operation of socially responsible
practice in enterprise restructuring. It is timely against the background of the
current recession but it also has potentially wider relevance. To exploit this
potential, the following chapters seek to:
(a) consider how career guidance can most successfully and cost-effectively be
delivered to support displaced and redundant workers and soon-to-be-
displaced workers, affected by enterprise restructuring, in recessionary
circumstances and beyond;
(b) assess effective adjustment policies and strategies needed to provide for
broad access to career guidance and counselling services, and other forms
of support to affected workers;
(c) review the conditions that affect the effectiveness of programme delivery to
support socially responsible restructuring, in particular the enablers and
constraints in restructuring contexts;
(d) highlight effective practice through practical examples of innovative and
better practice which could inspire various stakeholders, and be potentially
transferable across specific sectors;
(e) establish any wider implications for the development of more socially
responsible practices in using career guidance and counselling in
restructuring of enterprises.
These are significant challenges and the front-line evidence is central to
responding effectively to these needs. To do this, the review needs to adopt a
mixed methodological approach which not only looks across experiences in
selected Member States and in different economic sectors, but also captures
evidence drawn from single enterprise responses alongside regional
arrangements that support career guidance in restructuring firms.

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