Investigating the Link between Unemployment and Disability

Dow, Mirah J.; Lund, Brady; Douthit, William K.

doi:10.33137/ijidi.v4i1.32369

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“…We have discussed in detail the potential organizational advantages to neurodiversity. However, despite these potential advantages, neuroatypical individuals suffer from rates of under/unemployment significantly higher than that of the general public (Dow et al, 2020). Research suggests that employment is one of the more important factors related to well-being outcomes for individuals with disability (Beyer et al, 2010).…”

Section: (Un)employment Of Neuroatypical Individuals: Implications Fo...mentioning

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Neurodiversity in the workplace: Considering neuroatypicality as a form of diversity

LeFevre-Levy

Melson-Silimon²,

Harmata³

et al. 2023

Ind. Organ. Psychol.

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Estimates suggest as much as 17% of the US workforce may be neuroatypical, a term used to describe individuals whose neurological functioning is at the tail ends of the distribution of naturally occurring variation. Although the neuroatypical population has a history of under- and unemployment, their inclusion in the modern workplace (i.e., promotion of neurodiversity within organizations) is gaining recognition by scholars and organizations as an important dimension of organizational diversity. Despite this burgeoning interest in examining neuroatypicality in the context of organizational diversity, surprisingly little research has been conducted that bridges these two research areas. The literature that does exist is scattered across several different academic disciplines, largely outside of industrial-organizational psychology, and rarely examines the employment of neuroatypical workers explicitly from a diversity perspective. In this article we argue that as the nature of work evolves and jobs continue to become more specialized, neurodiversity will become an increasingly relevant dimension of organizational diversity and is likely to play a key role both in terms of individual employees’ well-being and performance outcomes, as well as organizational success.

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Section: (Un)employment Of Neuroatypical Individuals: Implications Fo...mentioning

confidence: 99%