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Course Description
In this webinar Dr. Karin Maiwald presents a study into the managers’ (frontline managers, supervisors) experiences with return-to-work policy in a Canadian setting. This is published in a public-access article in WORK (Epub, open access).
Disability Management, the policy in organizations which is directed at workers with health-related problems and work incapacities is presently oriented towards early interventions (RTW policy). In the healthcare sector in British Columbia, Canada, the choice is made to involve employer and worker representatives in policy formulation (the so called ‘bipartite structure’). The assumption is that if the differing interests between employers and workers in the policy formulation phase are bridged, the implementation will improve.
Dr. Maiwald will talk about how return to work (RTW), or work re-integration after work disability (WD) with sickness absence, is considered necessary to support workers’ health and social inclusion. The ambition, she will explain, is to support workers with various incapacities so they can function at work and to motivate them towards work participation and re-integration.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
- The selected policy evaluation approach
- The managers’ struggle to implement the policy
- The inflexibility & inability of arrangements on workers’ incapacities and RTW process
- What to do? Three proposals
Owner of Work-Health Connexion Consulting
Karin Maiwald, PhD
Course curriculum
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Manager Involvement in Work Re-Integration?
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Pre-Survey
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Manager Involvement in Work Re-Integration?
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Manager Involvement in Work Re-Integration?
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Evaluation Survey
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