What Would It Take? Employer Perspectives on Employing People with a Disability. A National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation Program Report

Autor/inn/en	Waterhouse, Peter; Kimberley, Helen; Jonas, Pam; Glover, John
Institution	National Centre for Vocational Education Research
Titel	What Would It Take? Employer Perspectives on Employing People with a Disability. A National Vocational Education and Training Research and Evaluation Program Report
Quelle	(2010), (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-9214-1375-9
Schlagwörter	Employer Attitudes; Focus Groups; Disabilities; Employment Opportunities; Employment Practices; Employment Programs; Attitudes toward Disabilities; Accessibility (for Disabled); Change Strategies; Best Practices; Supported Employment; Performance Factors; Foreign Countries; Occupational Surveys; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitgeberinteresse; Handicap; Behinderung; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Berufspraxis; Employment program; Employment programme; Employment programmes; Beschäftigungsprogramm; Accessibility; Zugänglichkeit; Lösungsstrategie; Arbeitsförderungsmaßnahme; Leistungsindikator; Ausland; Berufsanalyse; Australien
Abstract	One focus of the Australian Government's social inclusion agenda is to help people with a disability into work. The government's new National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy acknowledges that a considerable barrier to employment for people with a disability is the lack of information for employers. It is therefore timely to examine employer views on employing people with a disability. Based on a series of focus groups with employers from small-to-medium-sized enterprises, this report describes the attitudes of employers towards hiring a person with a disability. It also sets out some strategies that would assist businesses to take on employees with a disability. The research confirmed that, even when employers are open to the idea of employing a person with a disability, they are often not confident that they have the knowledge, understanding and capability to do so. Employers are not looking for formal training in "disability employment." They are looking for assistance in building their capacity to support the productive employment of people with a disability. The vocational education and training (VET) system already helps employers to employ people with disabilities (by providing group training organisation field officers, for example), but this report suggests a broader role could be developed. Inevitably, this would require financial support from governments. (Contains 2 figures.) [For the support document, see ED508545.] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Centre for Vocational Education Research Ltd. P.O. Box 8288, Stational Arcade, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. Tel: +61-8-230-8400; Fax: +61-8-212-3436; e-mail: ncver@ncver.edu.au; Web site: http://www.ncver.edu.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10