Predictors to employees with disabilities’ organisational behaviour and involvement in employment
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the work challenges of employees with disabilities and predict the organisational behaviours of employees and their involvement in employment. Design/methodology/approach – A self-developed questionnaire was used to gather relevant information fro...
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| Language: | English |
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/34920/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/34920/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/34920/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/34920/1/17103624_-_predictors_to_employees_with_disabilities.pdf |
| Summary: | Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the work challenges of employees with disabilities
and predict the organisational behaviours of employees and their involvement in employment.
Design/methodology/approach – A self-developed questionnaire was used to gather relevant
information from employers, employees with disabilities and their co-workers. The questionnaires
were distributed and administered by a number of trained enumerators.
Findings – Both employers and co-workers perceived that their organisations have provided conducive
organisation climate, comfortable work environment and reasonable adjustment for their employees with
disabilities. Employees with disabilities are found loyal and committed. They are satisfied with the job.
Organisational loyalty and commitment are predicted by the organisations’ ability to restructure their job
design to suit to the needs of employees with disabilities.
Research limitations/implications – Initially, this study planned to use purposive sampling;
however, due to poor database maintained by the relevant agency of employees with disability
employment in the country, the paper was unable to identify which employers employ how many
employees with disabilities. The sampling then was based on convenient sampling.
Practical implications – Job design, organisational climate and comfortable work environment
have long been recognised for motivating employees’ performance (Hackman et al., 1975; Garg and
Rastogi, 2006). The paper’s findings show that these factors also motivate employees with disabilities.
This is added value to the existing body of knowledge as limited is known about the motivation of
employees with disabilities.
Originality/value – This study is unique because it gathers data from several parties: employees
with disabilities, the co-workers and the employers. |
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