Employer-recommended strategies to increase opportunities for people with disabilities
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BACKGROUND: The employment rate among persons with disabilities is less than half the rate among persons without disabilities. Broad innovations are needed to reduce this disparity. OBJECTIVE: We examined employers' perspective related to: a) challen
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Employers recognized that people with disabilities represent an important customer base and that companies have an opportunity to win brand loyalty among a broad market of customers who value inclusion.
“In Henry et al.'s [1] study, employers recognized that people with disabilities represent an important customer base and that there is an opportunity for companies to win brand loyalty among a broad market of customers who value inclusion [1].”
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Three reviewed studies described increased competitive advantage as a result of improved customer diversity.
“Three studies described increased competitive advantage as a result of improved customer diversity [1,18,47].”
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Providing disability awareness training for co-workers of employees with disabilities created a more inclusive workplace culture.
“For example, Buciuinene and Kazlauskaite [18] found that providing (dis)ability awareness training for co-workers of employees with disabilities created a more inclusive workplace culture, which can strengthen a company's overall workforce [1].”
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Fourteen reviewed studies reported an inclusive and diverse workplace culture as a beneficial outcome of hiring people with disabilities.
“Another beneficial outcome of hiring people with disabilities involved an inclusive and diverse workplace culture, as reported in 14 studies [1, 5, 8, 18, 46-49, 60, 62, 70, 71, 75, 76].”
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Better inclusion, workplace climate, and disability awareness correlated with an employer's capacity to offer suitable accommodations or training to all staff.
“A trend found among several studies was that improved inclusion, workplace culture, and ability awareness were associated with a company's ability to provide proper accommodations or disability training for all employees [1,18,47,48,71].”
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The competitive advantage in hospitality and service may be attributed to employees with disabilities dealing with customers face-to-face, creating more opportunities to increase customer loyalty, especially among customers who value inclusion and diversity.
“This can be attributed to employees with disabilities dealing with customers face-to-face which creates more opportunities to increase customer loyalty, especially among customers who value inclusion and diversity [1,67].”
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- Authors
- Henry, A. D., Petkauskos, K., Stanislawzyk, J., & Vogt, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- Peoplesworth, Concord, MA, USA
- ORCID
- Henry, Alexis D.
- Venue
- Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 237-248
- ISSN
- 1052-2263 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2115309397
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 9.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Education and Employment
- Social Sciences › Demography › Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Keywords
- employment of people with disabilities, employer perceptions, employment strategies, employment disparities, workplace accommodations
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