Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 2)
Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 2)
Author(s): Peter S. Wong, Michelle Donelly, Bill Boyd, Philip A. NeckSubject(s): Business Economy / Management, Health and medicine and law, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: positive-autism; management; Drucker; strengths-focused-employment; evocative-analytic-autoethnography;
Summary/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 aսthоrs, 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.
Journal: Revista de Management Comparat Internațional
- Issue Year: 23/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 210-230
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English