Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective Hindle, Kevin, Noble, Jock and Phillips, Brian 1999, Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective, in ANZAM 1999 : Proceedings of the 1999 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference, ANZAM, [Lindfield, N.S.W.], pp. 1-37. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads hindle-productivityofworkers-post-1999.pdf Author's post print application/pdf 233.86KB 379 Title Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective Alternative title The productivity of workers with a disability : evidence dispels past myth ; entrepreneurship plans future reality Author(s) Hindle, Kevin Noble, Jock Phillips, Brian Conference name Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. Conference (1999 : Hobart, Tasmania) Conference location Hobart, Tasmania Conference dates 1-4 Dec. 1999 Title of proceedings ANZAM 1999 : Proceedings of the 1999 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference Publication date 1999 Start page 1 End page 37 Publisher ANZAM Place of publication [Lindfield, N.S.W.] Keyword(s) disability workers productivity entrepreneurship entrepreneurial business planning Summary This study investigated selected work-performance data of a large call centre using the entrepreneurial business planning paradigm as a theoretical framework and tested the hypothesis that levels of productivity would be different for each group between workers with a disability and workers without a disability. On five measures of productivity, no significant differences were discernible but on a sixth measure, length of employment, it was found that disability workers remained in employment significantly longer. These results strongly refute the ‘intuitive wisdom’ that workers with a disability are less productive. The results support a growing body of corporate experience and descriptive research indicating that workers with a disability perform as well as or better than their non-disability colleagues. Yet workers with a disability remain disproportionately under-employed. The key to translating the growing evidence of this research into higher levels of employment of workers with disabilities will depend upon employers adopting an entrepreneurial approach to the planning of human resource management. Notes Reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 0859018520 9780859018524 Language eng Field of Research 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 910499 Management and Productivity not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30029671 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Management and Marketing Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 16 Aug 2010, 10:00:29 EST Mon, 30 Aug 2010, 12:14:31 EST Mon, 30 Aug 2010, 12:15:43 EST Wed, 17 Nov 2010, 08:45:39 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 09:16:57 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:02:03 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 606 Abstract Views, 379 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 16 Aug 2010, 10:00:29 EST