strategy
Generating employment
Synonyms:
Creating jobsDevising employment support systems
Generating full employment scheme
Creating work
Increasing available work stock
Designing additional employment possibilities
Organizing employment channels
Developing avenues of engagement for workers
Creating new jobs
Reviving employment
Description:
Generating employment opportunities, often through the mechanism of minimum wage publics works programmes. Implementation:
The adverse effects of structural adjustment on employment and living standards have resulted in new initiatives by multilateral lending and bilateral donor agencies to provide resources to mitigate the cost of adjustment and transition, through measures such as "social" or "employment" funds. The ILO has been involved in the design and implementation of such funds. Criteria are being developed for channelling resources towards activities which combine employment creation and poverty alleviation with effective macro-economic policy management and employment planning.A study for the European Commission (DGV) found that the non-commercial baking sector (non-profit socially and environmentally-oriented financial organizations) created jobs with very little capital investment and with far less money than other banks and public support measures. Examples are that a job is created at the rate of ECU 2,900 on average when loaned to micro-enterprises; at the rate of ECU 4,100 on average when loaned to social enterprises, and at a rate of ECU 25,000 when loaned or invested in enterprises in new economic sectors such as the environment. The mainstream banking sector would almost certainly not have financed such organizations and projects, so these jobs would not have been created otherwise.
Claim:
1. Creating jobs involves more people's wisdom and creativity in building society and meeting social needs.2. With demographic growth, which is particularly pronounced in the young nations, the number of those failing to find work and driven to misery or parasitism will grow in the coming years unless the conscience of man rouses itself and gives rise to a general movement of solidarity through an effective policy of investment and of organization of production and trade, as well as of education. We know the attention given to these problems within international organizations, and it is our lively wish that their members will not delay bringing their actions into line with their declarations. (Papal Writings, 14 May 1971).
Counter Claim:
1. Job creating schemes do not increase society's productivity and thus are a waste of money.2. Is McDonald's a great job opportunity or are they taking advantage of high unemployment to exploit the most vulnerable people in society, working them very hard for very little money?
Broader:
CreatingReducing unemploymentProviding work structureProviding employmentElaborating national employment policiesCreating new systems Narrower:
Creating non agricultural jobsInitiating new workEmploying the disabledUsing interim employmentEnsuring full employmentCreating meaningful workCreating year round workCreating youth employmentEnsuring continual employmentCreating new job possibilitiesCreating effective work forcesIncreasing salaried local jobsFinancing socially useful workProviding sufficient local jobsCreating jobs through automationIncreasing employment in bankingEnhancing available work positionsCreating comprehensive work projectProviding increased local employmentStrengthening volunteer service forceIncreasing employment in retail sectorIncreasing employment in financial sectorIncreasing employment in accounting sectorProviding employment by energy restructuringProviding employment by energy restructuringIncreasing non-farm employment for small farmersCreating employment in the urban informal sectorLinking corporate strategies to employment effectsCreating paid work through computer-based technologiesCreating productive employment relating to the environmentExpanding productive employment Facilitates:
Liberalizing tradeAssuring available workAssuring available workFurnishing production forcesDesigning employee engagementSafeguarding adequate livelihoodPublicizing positions of employmentSupporting participation of women in work forceInstituting effective domestic security Facilitated by:
Training for jobsWorking from homePromoting employmentStabilizing employmentExpanding service sectorExpanding service sectorDeveloping new occupational areasDeveloping new approaches to workExpanding part-time employment positions Problems:
Restricted scope of local employmentOrganizations:
International Labour Organization ACCION International European Service Industries Forum US Civilian Research and Development Foundation Subjects:
Social Activity → EmploymentSocial Activity → Work
Social Activity → Workers
Transportation, Telecommunications → Telecommunications
Commerce → Merchandise
→ Systems
Development → Development
Design → Design
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
