Key Facts:
Fact 1:
Workplaces that sponsor awareness of various disability populations, benefit employees with disabilities by raising job satisfaction, increasing interaction among coworkers, improved productivity, enhancing company morale, improving attendance, and reducing the training costs for new employees.Fact 2:
Provision of workplace adjustments and accommodations helped in employee retainment, improvement of productivity, and boosted interactions among coworkers and the company’s climate.Fact 3:
To better support employees with disabilities, companies should increase and sponsor techniques that foster awareness of various disability populations in the workplace.Fact 4:
Training on various disability populations should be implemented in workplace settings to help reduce workplace discrimination.Employers have a critical role in cultivating positive awareness of various disability populations to diminish negative attitudes and stereotypes.
Fact 5:
Employers’ recognition of their own biases towards disability is important to achieve inclusion at the workplace. This can be facilitated through various supports from rehabilitation professionals such as emphasizing the assets of people with disabilities.Fact 6:
Activities such as a presentation about common misconceptions of disability and sharing success stories of employees with disabilities have been known to be successful in employer’s awareness of disability issues.Recommended Readings:
- Gewurtz, R. E., Langan, S., & Shand, D. (2016). Hiring people with disabilities: A scoping review. Work, 54(1), 135-148.
- Karpur, A., VanLooy, S. A., & Bruyère, S. M. (2014). Employer practices for employment of people with disabilities: A literature scoping review. Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 28(4), 225-241. doi:10.1891/2168-6653.28.4.225