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The motivation of people with mental or multiple disabilities to the integration of the protected or the open labour market
ŠTEMBERKOVÁ, Petra
This work deals with the issue of motivation of the handicapped people to work. The target group consists of people with mental or combined handicap. The theoretical part focuses on the basic terms, characteristics, description and classification of the target group. The first chapter describes the current situation, today's approach towards integration and names the documents dealing with the issue of handicapped people in regard of both work and social life. It also discusses the professional preparation and the life of adults, especially in the hotel-based institutions. The following part is devoted to characteristic features of employment of the handicapped people and the complex system of rehabilitation, as well as the means of work. These lead to gaining the maximal independence and reducing the reliance on the other people's help. The chapter underlines the importance of work and there are also the names of the subjects trying to support the employment on the protective or, ideally, the open market of work. In this regard we talk about the actions of the labor office, particularly the work rehabilitation, requalification, protected jobs or the employers' duties given by law. Then I mention socially therapeutic workshops, social business, social firm and the border tools, such as the transit programme, supported employment and Job Clubs. Some space is also devoted to the problem of unemployment. Finally, I tried to clarify the term of motivation and focused on the factors motivating a person to integrate themselves into the work process and their affecting features. In the practical part I aimed to identify the main factors motivating to work integration and employment and to find out which features affect people, their motivation and lead them to the work process. To fulfill the named tasks I used the quality approach and the half-structured interview as the method to gain all the data. I extended the interviews with fourteen adult mentally handicapped clients of two institutions and verified them by analyzing the documents to get the complex view. Gained data will be processed into the case study. According to the results of my research, handicapped people accommodated in the hotel-based institutions are well motivated to integrate themselves, to work and to get a job. The most frequent reason is the opportunity to use their personal skills. The other reasons were to earn money, help other people and find friends. On the other hand, these people lack other moving forces to drive them forward. They basically resigned and put their faith into the educators to always take care of them. Insufficient social contact and permanent educators' care make them indolent, so they do not try to find o job on their own. They were mostly made by the educators to get a job and arranged everything for them. Identification of the motivation features was not an easy task because they are completely individual, many of them were found, they are often combined and can affect people both in the positive and negative way. The most important features are the environment of the handicapped people and their educators, who take care of them. These people are also affected by the social life and their hobbies, especially when they managed to combine the job with their hobbies and, therefore, they like the job. Based on the said findings I formed two hypotheses which may lead to a following quantitative research.
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