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A national study of employers' attitudes toward persons with disabilities /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A national study of employers' attitudes toward persons with disabilities // Lisa Mara Ehrhart.
作者:	Ehrhart, Lisa Mara,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (122 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International56-04A.
標題:	Business education. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9430318

A national study of employers' attitudes toward persons with disabilities /
Ehrhart, Lisa Mara,

A national study of employers' attitudes toward persons with disabilities /Lisa Mara Ehrhart. - 1 electronic resource (122 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A.

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Persons with disabilities are under-represented in the American workforce. Previous federal legislation requiring nondiscrimination in employment toward persons with disabilities has been unsuccessful in alleviating this social problem. The recent passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandates nondiscrimination in employment practices and provides compliance timeframes. The role of employers is crucial to the successful implementation of the law. This study assessed the attitudes and employment practices of employers toward persons with disabilities across size and industry category of business through responses to a national mail survey. The attitude instrument used for this investigation was the Worker Scale developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. Three thousand attitude surveys were mailed to a sample of businesses stratified by size and industry. Three-hundred seventy surveys were returned. This represents a 12.3% return rate. These returned surveys were analyzed to determine differences across size and industry category of business in the responses to the Worker Scale, self-assessed knowledge of the ADA, likelihood of making workplace accommodations, previous experience in hiring or supervising employees with disabilities, and the number of employees with disabilities employed by sample businesses. One-way ANOVAs, Chi Square analyses, a Pearson correlation and a t-test were computed to assess the relationships between the variables identified. This study found no difference between assessed attitudes toward persons with disabilities and size of business. The majority of respondents (72%) assessed their level of knowledge of the ADA as being "knowledgeable" or "very knowledgeable". Respondents from large businesses rated themselves as more knowledgeable than medium businesses, and medium businesses rated themselves more knowledgeable than small businesses. Over two-thirds (68.9%) reported that accommodations have been made by their company or organization for an employee with a disability. Large businesses and those businesses classified as "government" or "education, health, and social service" were more likely to have made accommodations in the workplace. No relationship was found in this investigation between respondents' assessed attitude and their previous experience in hiring or supervising employees with disabilities. No correlation was found in this study between respondents' assessed attitude and the number of employees with disabilities employed by sample businesses.

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