5Approach People Management from a Disability Perspective
ONCE YOU HAVE HIRED ONE OR MORE people with disabilities to work for your company, you must work to incorporate your new employees into the workforce. What can you do to help the worker with a disability grow in his job and become a productive member of your work team? How can you work to remove barriers (both intentional and unintentional) to achievement that can hold back the employee with a disability? What are reasonable accommodations? Do you have to pay for adaptive technology? How can you prevent a disability discrimination lawsuit?
This chapter answers all these questions and many more. It ends with the example of how manager Curtis Bryan and employee Randy Hammer made blindness ...
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