Sensitizing and much more ‘to do list’ for the Indian corporates towards their Visually Impaired Employees for a Sustainable Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

Abstract

Purpose: The Corporate human resources in India have a negligible attention towards the visually impaired employees. The aim is to find out the correlation between the sexual self-concept, body esteem and the psychological well-being that relates to job performance of the visually impaired employees. As this will enable the companies to enhance their Employee Value Proposition accordingly. The authors have explored other dimensions possible; apart from sensitization workshops that will create a high sustainable working environment.Methodology: Full time 60 visually impaired from the service sector (namely banking, IT, hospitals, call centers, NGO and school staff) in India were considered for the study through the Mixed methods research where quantitative analysis has been done through purposive, convenience and snowball sampling.In addition, Qualitative analysis through Phenomenology method has been undertaken.Findings: High correlation between the Sexual self-concept, body esteem and Psychological well-being in visually challenged people that directly relates to their job performance.Supporting this is their verbatim that highlights the need for the companies to revamp their Employee Value Proposition.Practical Implications: From the findings, there is an emerging need to create a diversity inclusive working culture and environment that will result in reviving Employee Value Proposition for Indian companies for the visually disabled. Social Implications:The visually impaired will be better equipped to work if their companies take due diligence and care for their special needs to make the working environment and culture a Disability-Inclusive Originality/Value: The paper attempts to study the Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for the visually challenged and suggests many means apart from sensitizing to make the working environment disability integrated.