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Employer benefits and costs of employing a person with a disability

Graffam, Joseph, Smith, Kaye, Shinkfield, Alison and Polzin, Udo 2002, Employer benefits and costs of employing a person with a disability, Journal of vocational rehabilitation, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 251-263.

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Title Employer benefits and costs of employing a person with a disability
Author(s) Graffam, Joseph
Smith, Kaye
Shinkfield, Alison
Polzin, Udo
Journal name Journal of vocational rehabilitation
Volume number 17
Issue number 4
Start page 251
End page 263
Publisher Andover Medical Publishers
Place of publication Reading, Mass.
Publication date 2002
ISSN 1052-2263
1878-6316
Summary This paper is based on results of a national study in Australia. Questionnaires were completed by 643 employers, each of whom had employed a person with a disability between 1996-1998. Employers rated the importance of several factors relevant to decisions to hire and retain a person with a disability. Individual factors were rated most important, with grooming/hygiene and work-performance factors rated highest. Management factors and cost factors were rated moderately important. Social factors were rated least important. Analyses of variance were conducted, identifying several employer differences in ratings. The paper discusses employer values as well as the need to include employers in a partnership approach.
Language eng
Field of Research 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2002, IOS Press
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001618

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: School of Psychology
School of Health and Social Development
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