Author: Richard Hazenberg
, Fred Seddon
& Simon Denny
Summary:
This study takes a comparative approach to study the outcome’s performance of a work-integration social enterprise (WISE) and a for-profit’s work-integration organization that both provided employment enhancement programmes to NEETs. Participants at both organizations completed general self-efficacy questionnaires before and after engagement on the programmes. Additionally, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were held with the owners and staff at both organizations. The results revealed no significant difference between the outcome’s performance of the WISE and for-profit organization. However, an analysis of the organizational aims, values and structures suggests that the added value’s offered by the WISE came from the different induction policy that it operated.
