Managing Workplace Diversity : Disability

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The PPT highlights about managing employees with disability at workplace.

Workforce Diversity: Advantages of Employing People With Disability

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
2% of Indian population is DISABLED

If you don't see them, you must wonder why they aren't among you…

• 25 million disabled people in India

• 99.86% of them currently unemployed • People with disability have latent potential to contribute effectively to the mainstream of society
• Substantial under utilization of a nations potential

Perceived Diversity
Age Gender Race Ethnicity

Religion

• 100 corporate houses, listed in ‘Super 100’ of Business India

• 23 public sector companies, 14 MNCs, rest private players • 50 companies employed people with disability

• Rate of disabled employment only 0.4% of total work force
• No company employed over 2% people with disability
Types of disability among the disabled employees Types of disability Visual impairment Loco-motor impairment Percentage of total disabled employees 9.87% 70.57%

Speech and hearing impairment
Mental retardation Other disabilities

8.26%
0.66% 1.87%

Types of Company Public sector companies Private sector Indian companies Multinational companies

Percentage of people with disability as employees 0.54% of the total workforce 0.28% of the total workforce 0.05% of the total workforce

Disability employment in public sector companies at just 16% of what a company must employ by law …

The Charity Model The Bio-centric Model

The Functional Model The HR Model The Business Model

“Whenever someone begins with a sense of inclusion while building a vision, it is almost certain to be great.” – Subroto Bagchi L&T Tata Indicom call centre in the National Association for the Blind Infosys Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Infosys

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The list goes on …

• Productivity
• Loyalty and Commitment

• Wider Recruitment Net
• Gaining competitive advantage • Meeting the triple bottom line • Ethical brand image

• Honoring the law
• Tapping a latent market as customers

• Modifying infrastructure – ramps, Braille symbols, auditory signals

• Providing appropriate technological aids or attendants
• Extending certain extra benefits – special leaves, medical allowances, etc

• Non-discriminatory employment practices and processes – a culture
• Not Denying promotions on grounds of disability

• A paradigm shift in attitudes towards people with disability • Designing better infrastructure and modifying the existing one • Flexible work schedules and job restructuring

• Policy forming and providing training facilities
• Recruiting more people with disability at different levels and roles



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