Employers' views on disability, employability, and labor market inclusion: a phenomenographic study.

CONCLUSIONS: The study presents a framework for understanding employers' different views of employability for people with disabilities as a complex internal relationship between conceived individual-, workplace-, and authority-related aspects. Knowledge of the variation in conceptions of employability for people with disability may facilitate for rehabilitation professionals to tailor their support for building trustful partnerships with employers, which may enhance the inclusion of people with disabilities on the labor market. Implications for rehabilitation Employers' views on employing people with disabilities vary with respect to individual-, workplace-, and authority-related aspects in relation to trust, contribution and support. Knowledge of the employers' views on the employability of people with disabilities can support professionals in authorities and in vocational rehabilitation. The findings illustrate the importance of analyzing what type of support employers need as a starting point for building trustful partnerships between authority actors and employers. The findings offer a vocabulary that can be used by professionals in authorities and in vocational rehabilitation in tailoring employer-oriented support to increase labor market inclusion of people with disabilities. PMID: 29962236 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research