Work Integration Social Enterprises in Switzerland

Work Integration of People with Disabilities in Korean Social Enterprises

In this study, I question whether social enterprise can significantly help work integration of persons with disabilities (or PWDs). Particularly, I analyze the case of Korea which recently passed a bill (or Social Enterprise Support Law, SESL) setting the disabled as one of four target groups. Unlike former state-led policies, not all but some cases showed that social enterprises can create num...

How process enterprises really work.

Many companies have succeeded in reengineering their core processes, combining related activities from different departments and cutting out ones that don't add value. Few, though, have aligned their organizations with their processes. The result is a form of cognitive dissonance as the new, integrated processes pull people in one direction and the old, fragmented management structures pull the...

Work among the Mentally Defective in Switzerland

By Gertrud Lortscher. Translated by W. E. Houghton. Who is mentally defective? The idea of mental deficiency is a wide one, involvingmuch discussion. Psychologists vary in their conception of its boundaries. I am not going to discuss this question, but rather the place in social life of him who is considered mentally defective. " He is abnormal, who, on account of a deviation in his intellectua...

Social Work in Disaster, a Case Report

Introduction: Natural disasters cause many problems for society. Children are one of the most vulnerable groups that could face severe mental illness and are often separated from their family members and primary caregivers in this situation. Therefore, professional interventions are necessary to reduce the consequence of such situations for children. The purpose of this article is to report a s...

SOCIOLOGY IN SWITZERLAND Sociology of Work and Organization Organizations as Social Actors