Journal
WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 722-740Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0950017021993737
Keywords
academic careers; disability; discrimination; inclusion; social relational model
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- EPSRC Career Acceleration Grant (Heriot-Watt University)
- School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University
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This study examines the experiences of disabled academics in the UK, highlighting how HRM practices socially construct disability in the workplace. Organizational practices and policies, intended to 'accommodate' disabled people, inadvertently construct and shape disability for individuals with impairments or chronic health conditions.
Disabled people continue to face a variety of significant barriers to full participation and inclusion in work and employment. However, their experiences remain only sparsely discussed in relation to human resource management (HRM) practices and employment contexts. The current study contributes to this gap in understanding by drawing together relevant work connecting HRM practices, diversity management and disability studies to examine the experiences of a sample of 75 disabled academics in the UK. Through the social relational model of disability, HRM practices socially construct disability in the workplace. Interview and email data from disabled academics in the UK are drawn upon to illustrate how organisational practices and policies, while intended to 'accommodate' disabled people, inadvertently construct and shape disability for people with impairments or chronic health conditions.
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