Workability Europe Annual Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands 911 May 2006

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Workability Europe Annual ConferenceAmsterdam,
The NetherlandsBeyond 2006 Building
Workability Europes Future Together9-11 May
2006
Tore Skedsmo
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Involvement of Employees

• Involvement of Employees with Disabilities in
  Planning and Management in their Workplace
• Seminar Report by Routes to Employment and best
  Practice Pillar Group.
• Tore Skedsmo, Managing Director, ASVL

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Who, what, where

• 13 participants, 8 countries
• Workshop
• observe
• discuss
• conclude
• recommend
• Asker 50 minuts with Airport Expresstrain from
  Oslo Airport Gardermoen.

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Involvement of Employees

• Two avenues
• Formal / legal
• Administrative rutines

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Involvement of Employees

• Legal Labour Protection Laws
• information
• discussion
• participation
• seat(s) in the board
• Formal Trade unions
• freedom to organise / to be organised
• the right for the union, clubs To be informed,
  to be listened to
• Extremly few of our employees are declared
  incapable of managing his/hers affairs

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Involvement of Employees

• Discussion of daily workplan report on results
  and differences on personal- and team level.
• Information on status, results, development,
  action on at least weekly basis.
• Monthly meeting with all employees
• Plenum
• Agenda

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Cakeometer
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Recommendations

• Demands / advices
• Working group with clear leadership tasks, what
  decisions, who is doing what, time frame, etc.
• Employees with disabilities should be no
  different
• Individual quality standard with high visibility
  and evaluation (external) self evaluation
  benchmarking (learning from the
  best)
• Innovation pilot testing
• Consultation partnership is a continuum

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Recommendations, continues..

• Advantages
• Improves the competences
• Improves personnel relationships
• Takes away barriers for communication with each
  other
• Helps to create a team
• Improves self esteem, self confidence etc.

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Recommendations, continues..

• The broader picture
• EQRM Based on 9 principles of excellence
  participation at all levels (17 organisations use
  it)
• Expand to general company issues with support
  from families / relatives / carers / trainer(s)
• Importance of partnership between providers and
  organisations of people with disabilities.

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Recommendations, continues..

• Question marks
• Time consuming
• Difficult for big organisations
• How can you prove that involvement works?
• How do we work with non-supportive unions?

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A new role for supervisors

• Supervisors are not longer only responsible for
  the production but they are also heavily involved
  in the personnel development for employees with
  disabilities.

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Mission Impossible IV
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Would we prefer not to know what to do tomorrow?
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Would we play bowling without seeing the results?
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We prefer not to know the next step
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We have to decide for them
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We would prefer not to have a say about our
ownsituation
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The successful disabled
The deaf frog did not hear that it was
impossible to climb the pole.