Journal article
Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 2)
Revista de Management Comparat International, Vol.23(2), pp.210-230
2022
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Abstract
United Nations declares that employment is a basic human right. Numerous public policies reference the devastating impact of unemployment on health and social inclusion and seek to promote the economic participation of people-with-disabilities. Some researchers reckon high levels of economic marginalisation are experienced by people with a disability in Australia, in comparison with other OECD countries. In the literature, 80% unemployment rates are reported among working-age people-with-autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is a critical area of concern that is currently under-researched and poorly addressed. "ASD-ness" (ASD behavioural characteristics) can be regarded as personal differences rather than disorders. Acknowledged experts such as Drucker and Cliffton & Harter argue that individuals gain more when they build on their talents rather than focusing on improving weaknesses. The aսtһоrs, therefore, take an ASD-ness-strengths-based-approach philosophy which, in a nutshell, regards ASD-ness as a source of employment-strengths and autistic behavioural challenges as personal differences not deficits.
Details
- Title
- Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 2)
- Creators
- Peter S Wong - Southern Cross UniversityMichelle Donnelly - Southern Cross UniversityBill Boyd - Southern Cross UniversityPhilip Arthur Neck - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Revista de Management Comparat International, Vol.23(2), pp.210-230
- Publisher
- Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti
- Identifiers
- 991013044711902368
- Academic Unit
- Office of the Vice Chancellor; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article