Enabling Texts

PROSPECTS, 2015

International Journal of Management Reviews, 2012

The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 2018

Journal of Indian Business Research, 2020

PurposeDespite increased attention towards workplace disability in global and local development agenda, mainstream inclusion of persons with disability continues to be a challenge for most organizations. This paper aims to explore how organizations can be facilitated for adapting to the need and responsibility for change, towards evolving into disability inclusive workplaces.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses an inter-domain approach by linking organization change and development models to Indian indigenous disability management literature.FindingsThis review indicates that in comparison with the other dimensions of diversity, disability brings unique challenges that need a differentiated management approach. Further, it finds a strong base for organizations to approach disability management as a strategic and transformative change initiative, aligning with some of the proven change and organization development (OD) interventions.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper d...

Information and Organization, 2017

Ilomata International Journal of Social Science, 2022

The absorption of workers with disabilities in Indonesia is still limited. The companies argue that it is difficult to meet accessibility for disabled workers because it requires a lot of funds, for instance facilities that need to be made so that the workplace accessible for people with disabilities. This research is aimed at answering the questions of how the accessibility of persons with disabilities in employment opportunities in private companies in Indonesia, what obstacles encountered by persons with disabilities who work in private companies, and how the solutions are provided so that persons with disabilities have easy access to work in private companies. This is a qualitative research with a case study approach. The data collection in this study used semi-structured interviews with 20 people with disabilities consists of 10 people with disabilities who were rejected by companies and 10 people with disabilities who had been accepted to work but finally decided to quit. In t...

2019

Many organizations and enterprises have been dealing with diversity and inclusion in the workforce covering differences in culture, age, race, and disability among many others. This study will focus on the diversity brought about by disability, or difference in capabilities, in the workforce particularly exploring employee perspectives to disability inclusion in the workplace. A phenomenological analysis was conducted based on the qualitative data gathered through semi-structured interviews with employees who have experienced working with People With Disabilities (PWD). This research extracted themes surrounding employees’ perceptions formed from their experiences working with disabled colleagues, as well as link its possible effects to the formation of organizational culture and shared values among the employees in the enterprise. The findings show that employees working in a disability-inclusive environment had enhanced motivation to work harder and gained a sense of pride as infl...

2005

To investigate the inclusion of people with disabilities in the diversity policies of the most successful businesses in the United States, we examined the publicly available workforce and supplier diversity policies of the top 100 companies on Fortune Magazine’s 2003 list of the 500 most profitable companies in the nation. The majority of these companies have extensive information about their diver-sity policies and practices available on their corporate website. The information was used to categorize the poli-cies into those that include people with disabilities, do not define diversity, and enumerate what is meant by diversity (e.g. in terms of race or gender) but do not expressly mention disability. In addition, we looked beyond the diversity policies to information available on corporate websites relating to a variety of diversity initiatives. Find-