IMBA – An Instrument for the entrepreneurial practice of the work professional

Abstract

The text describes the Project IMBA: Integration of people with disabilities into the workplace and its several successful applications in different European organizations and its imminent introduction in Brazil. IMBA is a profile comparison and documentation procedures for the equitable workforce capacity. With IMBA can job requirements and human capabilities through consistent, defined characteristics be described and compared directly with each other. IMBA considers in this special way the needs of elderly, disabled people a new and more efficient vision. IMBA has been developed and tested by iqpr, Institute for Quality Security in the Prevention and Rehabilitation, and partner organizations University of Siegen and Munda GmbH, Essen, with financial support of the German Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The development team consisted of an interdisciplinary team made up of work scientists, physicians, psychologists and sports scientists. IMBA has currently a paper version and a software version called MARIE. Otherwise IMBA can be used in the context of professional education and prevention, rehabilitation and integration and provides an appropriate tool to status and documentation course of intervention. Depending on the problem it may also integrate within the scope of medical measures for early implementation when job-specific skill requirements and dimensions e.g. to reintegrate into the workplace, in the medical rehabilitation process. IMBA is to be applied in a way to help the individual within a necessary rehabilitation and integration process.