The hiring of employees with disabilities in organizations: a review of the international literature

Abstract

This article contains a review of the literature dealing with the attitudes of
employers that need to hire an employee with disabilities within their organizations.
The articles were selected using some databases (such as ERIC and Psych-
Lit) through the introduction of several keywords: “attitudes of employers”,
“employees with disabilities” combined with the terms “recruitment
process”, “reasonable accommodation” and “supported employment”. We
subsequently restricted the period of the researches between 2000 and
2014. The main results were synthesized around some broad categories:
personal characteristics of employers (perceptions about the legislation,
emotional reactions, obstacles and concerns), characteristics of the organization
(type of the activity and methods of recruitment) and characteristics
of the worker (physical, intellectual or acquired disabilities).