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Investigating the Challenges of Workplace Inclusion of People with Disabilities: Transitioning the Diversity Game

Year: 2022

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Diversity and Inclusion is gaining attention across the globe.People with disabilities (PWDs) formulate an important diversity group.The organizations are consistently aiming at forming inclusive workplaces for PWDs.Building inclusive workplace is highly aimed at effective interactions between the workforce with and without disabilities, top management's involvement and PWD employee's perception of inclusion.This study proposes an in-depth analysis of challenges of inclusion of PWDs.The two phased study commences with extensive literature review and identification of challenges of inclusion of PWDs.These challenges are divided into seven categories and further subcategories.In the second phase, Best Worst Method (BWM) is applied to rank the identified challenges.This study focuses on the effective investigation and prioritization of challenges in building inclusive workplaces.

Source: International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

DOI: 10.46254/in02.20220417

Authors: Snigdha Malhotra Malhotra, Feza Tabassum Azmi, Kokil Jain, Vernika Agarwal

Institutions: Aligarh Muslim University, Amity University, Fortune Institute of International Business

Language: English

Topic: Disability Education and Employment

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4386128917