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“ Improving Diversity through
Supported Employment ”
Employer´s view on hiring and support – results from swedish
studies
Johanna Gustafsson
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In association with:
• Sustainable work – project• 3 SE-organizations – 317 PwD, 20 employers• Five studies; study of effects on employment,
employer´s view on hiring, employer´s view on support, employees´view of social inclusion and gender differences in the rehabilitation process
• Employer´s view on hiring• Semi-structured interviews with 20 employers• Qualitative content analysis
– Attitudes to recruitment of PwD– Suitable jobs for Pwd– Necessary conditions for hiring PwD
• Employer´s attitude– Shaped by past experiences– Social responsibility
• Implications– Past experiences is based on inclusion,
opportunities to meet – positive meetings – otherwise stererotypes will prevail
• Matching• Suitable jobs
– Structure of labour market; perceived demands of flexibility and adaptability
– Low-skilled jobs
• Suitable traits– Positive attitude and lojality– ”happy being an assistent
• Matching to a ”disabilityspecific” position
Tasks
High qualified X (if competence)
Low qualified X
Unqualified
”Complement” ”Ordinary” Supervisor Manager Position•
• Implications– Be aware of stereotypes –there are thousands of
different jobs and disability is relative to environment
– Matching should not only aim at getting a job – also at getting a sustainable job
• Necessary conditions• Subsidized employment
– Social standards of productivity– Compensation for individual inability– Risk of being seen as ”second-class employees”
• Implications– Question the necessaries of subsidies – risk that
subsidies are seen as compensation enough – is it a good match?
• Accommodations– Customized work situation– Meet the demands of labour market– Ability seen as environmental-relative– Hamper development and reduce career
opportunities
• Implications– Support the employers during employment, to
maximize the employee´s full potential
• Conclusions– Employers give voice to an utilitarian perspective– From this perspective disability is seen as limiting
rather than enriching– But PwD could be highly valuable in ”disability-
specific” position– Clash between the perceived demands on the
labour market and stereotypes of inability