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Workers with Disabilities in Sheltered Employment Centres: A Training Needs Analysis
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Jurado de los Santos, Pedro; Costa, Rebeca Soler – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
The work presented is part of a study that the research group CIFO (Research Team in Training for the Labour Market, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona) has carried out, relating to the training needs analysis and basic competences and skills in the environment of sheltered employment centres (SECs) in Catalonia (this study was…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Sheltered Workshops, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs
Service Quality and Corporate Social Responsibility, Influence on Post-Purchase Intentions of Sheltered Employment Institutions
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Chen, Chao-Chien; Lin, Shih-Yen; Cheng, Chia-Hsin; Tsai, Chia-Ching – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of service quality and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on customer satisfaction, and customer satisfaction toward post-purchase intentions from sheltered employment institutions. Work experience plays an important role in career development for those people with intellectual…
Descriptors: Business, Social Responsibility, Sheltered Workshops, Mental Retardation
Understanding Quality of Working Life of Workers with Intellectual Disabilities
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Flores, Noelia; Jenaro, Cristina; Orgaz, M. Begona; Martin, M. Victoria – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
Background: This paper examines the perceived quality of working life of workers with intellectual disabilities. Specifically, this paper looks at participants' perceptions in relation to perceived job demands and resources and their impact on experienced job satisfaction. Methods: In this cross-sectional survey, 507 workers with intellectual…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Quality of Working Life
Factor Analysis of a Questionnaire Used for Developing an Operational Philosophy for Habilitation Facilities.
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Meadows, Denis; Tehan, Gerry – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1985
Value questionnaires were developed and completed by 358 staff of activity therapy centers, which provide vocational and social training to disabled adults. Factor loadings of the questionnaire, designed to explore attitudes toward habilitation are reported. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Disabilities, Normalization (Handicapped)
Quality of Life of Workers with an Intellectual Disability in Supported Employment
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Verdugo, M. A.; Jordan de Urries, F. B.; Jenaro, C.; Caballo, C.; Crespo, M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Aim: This study investigate what characteristics of supported employment increase quality of life and whether quality of life is higher in supported employment workers or the sheltered ones in Spain. Typicalness, the degree to which the characteristics of a job are the same as those of co-workers without a disability in the same company, was…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Work Environment
The Effect of Different Types of Employment on Quality of Life
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Kober, R.; Eggleton, I. R. C. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Background: Despite research that has investigated whether the financial benefits of open employment exceed the costs, there has been scant research as to the effect sheltered and open employment have upon the quality of life of participants. The importance of this research is threefold: it investigates outcomes explicitly in terms of quality of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Sheltered Workshops, Work Environment, Employment Opportunities
Job Skill Training, Placement and Follow-up of Rehabilitation Clients in Utah Sheltered Workshops.
Tracy, Keith M. – 1979
A Study investigated skill training, job placement, and follow-up services for the vocationally handicapped of sheltered workshops in Utah. Two questionnaires were developed, one to ascertain pertinent data about clients from the sixteen workshops of Utah and the other from the placed clients, for validation purposes. All but one workshop…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Disabilities, Job Placement, Job Skills