Incorporating Disability Friendly Strategies
Employers who include disability issues in corporate diversity policies enrich and enhance workplace benefits in the new economy. Among other benefits, hiring people with disabilities leads to an increase in overall morale and the ability to cast a wider recruiting net.
The following outlines strategies to successfully incorporate persons with disabilities into the workplace.
- Make a corporate commitment to include people with disabilities among your stakeholders.
It is important that everyone, from the CEO down, embraces the idea of hiring these capable individuals.
- Educate all staff on disability.
New staff orientation could include disability awareness training.
- Provide ongoing information on disability.
Continued education enables employees to utilize pertinent disability information to resolve everyday family and worklife situations.
- Form a disability support group.
- Provide accessible facilities and services.
- Accommodate applicants and workers with disabilities.
- Project a disability friendly image to attract candidates and customers with disabilities.
Encourage staff to volunteer in the community.
- Hire applicants with disabilities.
- Train and advance workers with disabilities.
Employers who want to make a difference in the disability employment arena are eager to influence tomorrow's workers with disabilities and help candidates with their search.
