Type of Project: Funded project
Integration of severely disabled persons into the labor market - Company integration management

The aim of the project is to support the job integration and participation of disabled people in working life by developing a pilot study on the topic of "Development of optimized company integration management in the administrative district of Swabia" as part of the regional management of the specialist integration service (ifd) in Augsburg and Memmingen initiated in 2003 and the so-called "regional support structure". In a first step, the foundations for this are to be laid in a basic study. In addition to the theoretical basis, our particular concern is to define internal preconditions and cooperation models on the basis of integration-promoting structures in companies of Swabian employers who largely fulfill their obligations in the Social Code Book IX (so-called "best practice"), which serve as examples for other companies in the region for the practical implementation of company integration management. The empirical approach is not to penetrate existing company social structures and specific individual "lifeworlds" of disabled employees - and possibly to burden these, but to obtain appropriate information through qualitative empirical methods such as expert discussions and interviews with personnel managers, representatives of the severely disabled and also works councils, which support our approach in their informative value. The many years of experience of these "experts" with regard to the integration of severely disabled people in day-to-day work is our primary source of information. Participant observation, e.g. in the form of a specific company visit, further supports the information obtained in this way.