Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 1)

Peter S Wong, Michelle Donelly, Bill Boyd and Philip A Neck
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Peter S Wong: Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences, Australia
Michelle Donelly: Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences, Australia
Bill Boyd: Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences, Australia
Philip A Neck: Southern Cross University, School of Health and Human Sciences, Australia

REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, 2021, vol. 22, issue 5, 636-658

Abstract: United Nations declares that employment is a basic human right. Numerous public policies reference the devastating impact of unemployment on health and social inclusion and seek to promote the economic participation of people-with-disabilities. Some researchers reckon high levels of economic marginalisation are experienced by people with a disability in Australia, in comparison with other OECD countries. In the literature, 80% unemployment rates are reported among working-age people-with-autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is a critical area of concern that is currently under-researched and poorly addressed. ASD-ness (ASD behavioural characteristics) can be regarded as personal differences rather than disorders. Acknowledged experts such as Drucker and Cliffton & Harter argue that individuals gain more when they build on their talents rather than focusing on improving weaknesses. The authors, therefore, take an ASD-ness-strengths-basedapproach philosophy which, in a nutshell, regards ASD-ness as a source of employmentstrengths and autistic behavioural challenges as personal differences not deficits.

Keywords: positive-autism; productivity; management; Drucker; strengthsfocused-employment; evocative-analytic-autoethnography. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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