101 lines
3.3 KiB
YAML
101 lines
3.3 KiB
YAML
abstract: 'Introduction Timely and appropriate accommodations can help employees
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who experience disabilities stay at work instead of exiting the labor
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force. Employers can play a critical role in connecting such workers
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with the accommodations they need. This qualitative study seeks to
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inform policy makers who want to improve workforce retention outcomes by
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uncovering factors that affect whether employers provide accommodations
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to, and ultimately retain, employees with disabilities. Methods We
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conducted semistructured interviews with a convenience sample of human
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resources professionals in 14 Arkansas-based employers, yielding
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detailed information on 50 cases in which an employee developed or
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disclosed a disability. We analyzed the interviews using a grounded
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theory approach and compared cases to identify key themes emerging
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across subgroups of cases. Results Two organization-level factors and
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four employee-level factors influenced employers'' efforts to accommodate
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and retain employees with disabilities: employer resources; employers''
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communication with the employee and other stakeholders; employee tenure;
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employee work performance; active/sedentary nature of employee role; and
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the severity and type of employees'' health conditions. Conclusions
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Consistent with prior literature, employers with greater access to
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resources and better ability to communicate generally made greater
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effort to accommodate and retain employees with disabilities. However,
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employers in the study did not deploy these resources and processes
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consistently when making decisions about whether and how to provide
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accommodations to workers with disabilities; employee-level
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characteristics affected their actions. Policy makers should consider
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intervention approaches that reach workers who may be overlooked by
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employers with scarce resources.'
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affiliation: 'Morrison, K (Corresponding Author), Math Policy Res, 1100 First St NE,Floor
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12, Washington, DC 20002 USA.
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Gould-Werth, Alix, Washington Ctr Equitable Growth, 1500 K St NW,Suite 850, Washington,
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DC 20005 USA.
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Morrison, Katherine; Ben-Shalom, Yonatan, Math Policy Res, 1100 First St NE,Floor
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12, Washington, DC 20002 USA.'
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author: Gould-Werth, Alix and Morrison, Katherine and Ben-Shalom, Yonatan
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author-email: 'agouldwerth@equitablegrowth.org
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kmorrison@mathematica-mpr.com'
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author_list:
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- family: Gould-Werth
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given: Alix
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- family: Morrison
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given: Katherine
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- family: Ben-Shalom
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given: Yonatan
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1007/s10926-018-9806-6
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eissn: 1573-3688
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files: []
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issn: 1053-0487
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journal: JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION
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keywords: 'Work; Disability; Work retention; Work accommodations; Qualitative
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research'
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keywords-plus: SUPERVISOR; WORK; EMPLOYMENT; BARRIERS; RETURN
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language: English
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month: DEC
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number: '4'
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number-of-cited-references: '25'
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orcid-numbers: Ben-Shalom, Yonatan/0000-0002-8891-9470
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pages: 611-633
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papis_id: 8d1ca54583b9002db840af305df0959a
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ref: Gouldwerth2018employersperspective
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times-cited: '10'
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title: 'Employers'' Perspectives on Accommodating and Retaining Employees with Newly
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Acquired Disabilities: An Exploratory Study'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000450856600006
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '7'
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volume: '28'
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web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation; Social Issues
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year: '2018'
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