Categorizing supervisor reflections on risks of hiring persons with disabilities
Author
Faculty Advisor
Date
2017
Keywords
people with disabilities, employment discrimination, personnel management, employee morale, risk perception, underemployment, cognitive dissonance, discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, workforce planning, workplace diversity
Abstract (summary)
Although legislation prohibits employment discrimination related to disability such discrimination is regularly perpetuated and contributes to underemployment of persons with disabilities. I make the assertion that decision-maker's perceptions of risk shape their intention to hire, and actual hiring of, persons with disabilities. There is minimal qualitative research published regarding supervisors ' views on hiring persons with disabilities. This shortcoming is addressed though my solicitation and of supervisor reflections on hiring and declining to hire persons with disabilities. I also map these reflections to categories of risk perception to generate insight on the nature of and form of supervisor risk perceptions.
Publication Information
Annett, M. (2017). Categorizing supervisor reflections on risks of hiring persons with disabilities. Journal of Organizational Psychology, 17(4), 29-35.
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Item Type
Article
Language
English
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