The disabled —untapped organisational resource
By Cosmas Okoli Every employer wants to employ the best hands to help achieve organizational goals, but not all of them know how to source for the best hands in our today’s skill deficient work force. In this discuss, I shall focus on the enormous benefits that can accrue, directly or indirectly to an organization by employing people with disability. Disabled people are twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people, and this is simply not because they are all lazy benefit scroungers, but because of common misconceptions preventing the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the workforce. [caption id="attachment_203734" align="alignnone" width="412"] Disabled children in a Home[/caption] For example, the perceived cost of employing a person with a disability; in terms of possible workplace adjustments, the perceived impact on their compensation and sick leave, the belief that people with disability will take up too much time to manage, the...