‘Set up to Fail’? How Welfare Conditionality Undermines Citizenship for Vulnerable Groups

‘Set up to Fail’? How Welfare Conditionality Undermines Citizenship for Vulnerable Groups

Underpinned by the assumption that unemployed persons are passive recipients of social security, recent welfare reforms have increased benefit conditionality in the UK and introduced harsher penalties for failure to meet these conditions. Yet, conditionality may result in vulnerable groups disproportionately experiencing disentitlement from benefits, one of the rights of social citizenship, bec...

The set-up-to-fail syndrome.

Why do some employees perform poorly? Most managers would answer that question by ticking off a list that includes weak skills, insufficient experience, inability to prioritize assignments, and lack of motivation. In other words, they would contend that poor performance is the employee's fault. But is it? Not always, according to the authors. Their research with hundreds of executives strongly ...

How to Set up an Effective Food Tax?; Comment on “Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?”

Whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. Excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

How to set up an audit.

Accountability by surgeons for the work they undertake is now seen by health service management in the United Kingdom as a high priority.'2 In December 1987 the Royal College of Surgeons made it clear that hospitals and their surgical training posts would not be recognised unless audit and exercises in quality control were performed regularly. These and other recent events, such as initiatives ...

How to set up a concierge practice.