Learning Points from: Understanding Employer Attitudes

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• Learning Points from Understanding Employer
  Attitudes
• Mike Danson, Karen Gilmore,
• Ewa Helinska-Hughes and Janette Wyper
• University of Paisley, Paisley PA1 2BE
• 0141 848 3369 mike.danson_at_paisley.ac.uk
• Presentation to EQUAL Access
• Learning from the Research
• Monday 24th October 2005
• Whisky Heritage Centre, Edinburgh

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Characteristics of project and dissemination

• Labour supply issues dominate
• Same as policy, research, analyses
• Employer attitudes ltgt engagement?
• Significant and ubiquitous difficulty

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Employability Framework for Scotland

• Literature search economic theory limited but
  maybe sufficient why employ EQUAL Access
  clients cf. why not?
• CSR and Projects
• Information and literature on discrimination,
  client groups Gillespie and Scott, 2005
• Employment Demand Workstream, Evidence Base,
  etc., June / September 2005
• All suggests looking for actual evidence

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Evidence

• Secondary research evaluations
• Interviews projects and employers
• Organisations as Employers
• And not as policymakers, strategic decision
  makers, proselytisers, etc.
• Taking as what do/able to do not what HQ
  mission statements suggest
• National v local

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Models and Best Practice?

• Good or best practice?
• Institutional differences and capacities
• Industrial and economic structures
• Past successes customise and tailor
• Are there simple models available off the shelf?

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Structures and Studies

• Role of case studies
• B2B
• Networking
• Partnerships including Jobcentre plus, LAs, SE,
  SExec, employers aka Business Organisations
• Representative
• Able to deliver?

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Client Groups

• Recruitment and retention
• Distance from market
• Size matters
• Acceptable and deserving inclusion
• What happens when the recession comes?

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Questions and Issues

• Questions and Issues
• Not answers and model approaches
• One size fits all?
• All sectors, geographies, histories, aspirations?
• Interactions
• Sets the agenda