Do Employees with Disabilities Face Disparities
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Is Disability Disabling in All Workplaces? Workplace Disparities and Corporate Culture
LISA SCHUR, DOUGLAS KRUSE, JOSEPH BLASI, and PETER BLANCK*
Using nearly 30,000 employee surveys from fourteen companies, we find disability is linked to lower average pay, job security, training, and participation in decisions, and to more negative attitudes toward the job and company. Disability gaps in attitudes vary substantially, however, across companies and worksites, with no attitude gaps in worksites rated highly by all employees for fairness and responsiveness. The results indicate that corporate cultures that are responsive to the needs of all employees are especially beneficial for employees with disabilities.
Introduction
DO EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES FACE DISPARITIES in important workplace outcomes such as pay, training, job security, promotions, and participation in decisions? Do they believe their companies treat them fairly and with respect? Do
* The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, USA; School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, 900 Crouse Avenue, Crouse-Hinds Hall, Suite 300, Syracuse, NY, USA. E-mails: lschur@rci.rutgers.edu, dkruse@rci.rutgers.edu, jrbru@hotmail.com, pblanck@syr.edu. This paper was presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference, Dallas, Texas, May 2006, and in a seminar at the Rutgers University Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. Adrienne Colella, Ed Yelin, Corinne Kirchner, Stan Gully, and seminar participants provided useful comments and advice. Refen Koh, Michelle Pinheiro, Rhokeun Park, and Patricia Berhau provided excellent assistance in survey scanning, entry,...
LISA SCHUR, DOUGLAS KRUSE, JOSEPH BLASI, and PETER BLANCK*
Using nearly 30,000 employee surveys from fourteen companies, we find disability is linked to lower average pay, job security, training, and participation in decisions, and to more negative attitudes toward the job and company. Disability gaps in attitudes vary substantially, however, across companies and worksites, with no attitude gaps in worksites rated highly by all employees for fairness and responsiveness. The results indicate that corporate cultures that are responsive to the needs of all employees are especially beneficial for employees with disabilities.
Introduction
DO EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES FACE DISPARITIES in important workplace outcomes such as pay, training, job security, promotions, and participation in decisions? Do they believe their companies treat them fairly and with respect? Do
* The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, USA; School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, 900 Crouse Avenue, Crouse-Hinds Hall, Suite 300, Syracuse, NY, USA. E-mails: lschur@rci.rutgers.edu, dkruse@rci.rutgers.edu, jrbru@hotmail.com, pblanck@syr.edu. This paper was presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference, Dallas, Texas, May 2006, and in a seminar at the Rutgers University Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. Adrienne Colella, Ed Yelin, Corinne Kirchner, Stan Gully, and seminar participants provided useful comments and advice. Refen Koh, Michelle Pinheiro, Rhokeun Park, and Patricia Berhau provided excellent assistance in survey scanning, entry,...