Hong, Philip Young P.
Toward A Client-Centered Benchmark for Self-Sufficiency Evaluating the ‘Process’ of Becoming Job Ready / Philip Young P. Hong. - pp. 356-378.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how service providers, clients, and graduates of a job-training program define the term self-sufficiency (SS). This community-engaged, mixed-method study qualitatively analyzes focus group data from each group and quantitatively examines survey data obtained from participants of the program. Findings reveal that psychological transformation, as a process, represents the emic definition of SS—psychological SS—but each dimension of the concept is reflected in varying degrees by group. Provider and participant views are vastly different from the outcome-driven policy and funder definitions. Implications for benchmarking psychological SS as an empowerment-based process measure of job readiness in workforce development evaluation are discussed.
Mode of access: Internet.
Workforce development, psychological self-sufficiency, employment hope, employment barriers, mixed method
Toward A Client-Centered Benchmark for Self-Sufficiency Evaluating the ‘Process’ of Becoming Job Ready / Philip Young P. Hong. - pp. 356-378.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate how service providers, clients, and graduates of a job-training program define the term self-sufficiency (SS). This community-engaged, mixed-method study qualitatively analyzes focus group data from each group and quantitatively examines survey data obtained from participants of the program. Findings reveal that psychological transformation, as a process, represents the emic definition of SS—psychological SS—but each dimension of the concept is reflected in varying degrees by group. Provider and participant views are vastly different from the outcome-driven policy and funder definitions. Implications for benchmarking psychological SS as an empowerment-based process measure of job readiness in workforce development evaluation are discussed.
Mode of access: Internet.
Workforce development, psychological self-sufficiency, employment hope, employment barriers, mixed method
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Lee Yan Fong Library
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