... a piece to the puzzle of how proactive behaviors might contribute to creating better employment opportunities for diversity, equity and inclusion for employees with disabilities. Without dismissing the value of other personal resources and job characteristics, two personal resources (self-efficacy...

... others, like us, view vulnerability as a universal condition with both positive and negative organizational implications. However, how organizations actively shape vulnerability remains unclear. Design/methodology/approach To this aim, we conducted 56 interviews with employees with disabilities who...

... accommodations) mapped to 22 outcomes. Workplace accommodations and job training were linked with positive outcomes in the age and disability dimensions of diversity. Diversity training was associated with comparatively higher-quality evidence, albeit its effects were largely limited to awareness and learning...

... purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Work inclusion Diversity Disabilities Commitment Motivation Benefits Leadership Research on equality...

...Matteo Moscatelli; Nicoletta Pavesi; Chiara Ferrari Purpose The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) recognizes the right of disabled people to access work. Against this legislative backdrop, this study explores the strengths and weaknesses of the Italian...

... a video of successful job performers on the autism spectrum could improve assessments of candidates on the autism spectrum. Our third objective is to consider how our findings might have implications for reducing hiring bias against IotAS. Research that regards people with disabilities as a broad...

...Bephyer Parey; Elisabeth Kutscher; Hannah Enightoola Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine if the existing legislative framework in Trinidad and Tobago supports equal opportunities and the achievement of fundamental human rights for persons with disabilities seeking to access education...

...Eric Patton Purpose The decision to disclose an illness is a difficult choice for many individuals. Despite national laws such Americans with Disabilities Act that protect workers with disabilities from discrimination in the workplace, the stigmas around certain illnesses, fears of being judged...

...Emil Erdtman; Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn; Per-Olof Hedvall Purpose Universal design (UD) is defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and adopted in Sweden as a guiding principle for the design of new products, facilities, services, etc. This study...

...Yang Yang; Mukta Kulkarni; David Baldridge; Alison M. Konrad Purpose Persons with disabilities (PWD) are among the largest and most diverse minority groups and among the most disadvantaged in terms of employment. Entrepreneurial pursuit is often advocated as a path toward employment, inclusion...

...Felix Y. Wu; Christine Nittrouer; Vinh Nguyen; Mikki Hebl; Frederick L. Oswald; Lex Frieden Purpose In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. This law was intended to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities (PWD...

...Amit Gupta; Pushpendra Priyadarshi Purpose There is dearth of research pertaining to how persons with disability (PWDs) view their career and the issues they face in career development; past studies highlight either the organizational initiatives or individual factors in this regard. The present...

...Sally Lindsay; Joanne Leck; Winny Shen; Elaine Cagliostro; Jennifer Stinson Purpose Many employers lack disability confidence regarding how to include people with disabilities in the workforce, which can lead to stigma and discrimination. The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept...

...John-Stewart Gordon; Felice Tavera-Salyutov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and comment on disability rights legislation by focusing on international documents on people with impairments of the last decades, in order to provide more information on the dynamics of the disability...

...Dimity Jane Peter; Sarah Alem; Barbara Knabe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to give voice to the experiences of women with disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) who have accessed employment, to highlight the structural barriers to employment and to identify the skills they used...

...Susan Teather; Wendy Hillman Purpose There has been very little empirical research for the need to identify the importance of an inclusive territory of commonality for “invisible” students with disabilities in Australian education testing, such as the National Assessment Program-Literacy...

...Mukta Kulkarni Purpose In outlining the author’s experiences as a researcher and as an individual who engages with persons with a disability, the author wonders what meaningful research means when research subjects are people that society lumps together, largely views as stigmatized, and does...

...Mukta Kulkarni; Stephan Alexander Boehm; Soumyak Basu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate research on human resource systems with work on disability management practices to outline how multinationals across India and Germany are engaged in efforts to increase workplace inclusion...

...Magdalene C.H. Ang; T. Ramayah; Hanudin Amin Purpose – The high unemployment rates among persons with disabilities (PWDs) is nothing new. Many people fail to recognize that the disabled population is a significant but largely untapped source of human resources. Prejudices and misconceptions about...

... and self-efficacy in predicting job performance of people with disabilities. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected in an Israeli call center employing mostly people with disabilities. The independent and moderator variables were assessed by an employee survey. To avoid common source bias...