Multiprofessional Transition Management at Vocational Schools in Germany – A Task of Organisational Development to Strengthen the Professional Integration of Young Adults
摘要
Changing job profiles, particularly due to technological and social developments, making multiprofessional support for students in transition process to work a central task. Vocational schools in Germany establish a wide range of vocational orientation offers for especially vulnerable students to prepare them for social and professional participation. This contribution presents results of an explorative case study to analyse the multiprofessional transition management at one vocational school, which was conducted in a project at the Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen. The organisational analysis is based on organisational sociological perspectives and educational governance theories. The insights based on conducted guideline-based expert interviews, which were evaluated using qualitative content analysis. The results show design potentials establishing organisational structures and elements to shape vocational orientation and reveal that (non-)school actors with different competencies take on tasks and functions to realise multiprofessional transition management.