A Study on Organisational Practices Towards Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities at Workplace
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Abstract
Diversity has been a practice among organisations across the world. Various dimensions of diversity are considered such as gender, ethnicity, age-group, sexual orientation, physical ability etc. Among Indian organisations, consideration of physical ability has not been quite popular, particularly in non-government organisations. There are some organizations that have inclusion of persons with disabilities employees as a part of their diversity program; some consider it as a CSR agenda while others use it as a social image enhancement. Recently it has been observed that there are few organisations that provide employment to the persons with disabilities in the main stream jobs too.
This research paper aims to study the practices of such organisations which have considered their business model by taking the initiative towards the inclusion of persons with disabilities at workplace. An exploratory approach has been adopted in identifying organisations which has a significant proportion of their workforce as persons with disabilities compared to other competitors in the industry. Secondary data has been collected from web portals, research papers and various reports published by reputed bodies like World Bank, ILO etc. Qualitative approach has been adopted in analysis and interpretation of the data. Overall the research paper gives us an insight about such organisations which has understood the value of employing persons with disabilities at workplace.
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