The article I choose is “Disability and employment – overview and highlights” “from the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology” by Katharina Vornholt, Patrizia Villotti, Beate Muschalla, Jana Bauer, Adrienne Colella, Fred Zijlstra, Gemma Van Ruitenbeek, Sjir Uitdewilligen & Marc Corbière. From the authors, many specialize in Social Psychology along with other focuses. This article discusses disability in regards to employment to conclude from research, what disability is, how it is seen in the workplace, and how the inclusion of disability is being promoted in different countries. The text outlines the research on disability and employment, beginning with the complexity of defining disability. They then include the legislation behind the integration of people with disabilities into the workplace followed by the barriers of hiring and maintaining workers with disabilities. In conclusion, they bring light to the fact that around the world there still contuse to be a low percentage of disabled workers, even with legislation and programs made to encourage them to be hired. The researchers acknowledge that disability emerges from the interaction of person and environment, and as a result encourage that more research about defining disability and accommodating for those with disabilities needs to be done, for an increase in inclusion.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2017.1387536
A solid start, but we could use a little more detail in terms of the authors’ scope–are they looking at laws all around the world? just in Europe? in specific countries? Can you give us a sense of their project? Is this a review of existing legislative efforts? Are they advocating for particular kinds of legislation? Are they talking to employers? To scholars?