Supported Employment

Wehman, Paul; Brooke, Vicki; Lau, Stephanie; Targett, Pamela

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“…When combined, the social theory of disability (Abberley, 1987) and the positive psychology theory (Seligman, 2011) seem to support the impact of entrepreneurship on positive outcomes for PwID such as LQ, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Recent studies, for example, argue that entrepreneurship is a good option for PwD as it provides flexibility (Wehman et al, 2015) and could potentially provide these people with engagement, meaning Entrepreneur with ID and life satisfaction and accomplishment, to ultimately enhance their well-being and LQ (cf., Uyanik et al, 2017). However, the job-person fit (Cable and Edwards, 2004) or occupational-personality fit theories (McCarthy et al, 2022) argue that this would only be true if the personality or attitudes of the people who start a business suit all those values and attitudes that the entrepreneurship career represents.…”

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How entrepreneurship drives life satisfaction among people with intellectual disabilities (PwID): a mixed-method approach

Barba‐Sánchez

Martín

Estévez

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PurposeThe high and persistent unemployment rates of people with intellectual disabilities (PwID) reveal the wide gap that still remains to be bridged. Entrepreneurship combinedly with a high enterprising tendency could improve PwID's life satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-method approach was used, based on questionnaires and structured face-to-face interviews on 37 PwID who had recently become entrepreneurs. Data were firstly quantitatively analyzed using partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), and qualitative data were used to enable robust findings.FindingsThe entrepreneurial tendency of PwID who had recently become entrepreneurs was found to be a positive to their life quality (LQ), job satisfaction and life satisfaction.Research limitations/implicationsThis study revealed that entrepreneurship among PwID who had high enterprising tendency enhances their LQ, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. However, further research could evaluate whether becoming an entrepreneur is in itself enough to change PwID's life to better, such that a comparison could be done between PwID who become entrepreneurs and PwID who have a salaried job.Practical implicationsNew aspects in the design of public social policies to improve PwID's life satisfaction are suggested. These include the facilitation of both entrepreneurship and enterprising tendency for PwID to enhance their life satisfaction.Originality/valueThere are very few occasions in which PwID set up businesses. This is one of the first studies to analyze the benefit of entrepreneurship and enterprising tendency on the LQ, the satisfaction at work and the life satisfaction of PwID.

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How entrepreneurship drives life satisfaction among people with intellectual disabilities (PwID): a mixed-method approach

Barba‐Sánchez

Martín

Estévez

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“…For instance, typical activities during this stage would involve information gathering and creating the conditions for success during the negotiation stage. In the context of employment for people with disabilities, pre‐negotiation includes an extensive conversation with the person with disabilities to reveal personal preferences, functional limitations, and the scope of tasks that could be part of the negotiated agreement (Wehman et al, 2013). In addition, this stage involves identifying occupational opportunities that might fit with the talents, interests, and skills of the focal individual.…”

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Representative‐negotiated i‐deals for people with disabilities

Bonaccio

Connelly

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Human Resource Management

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Although substantial research has been devoted to describing the challenges people with disabilities face in the workplace, much less attention has been focused on the processes that can bring about change. This article explores a proactive process, representative‐negotiated idiosyncratic work arrangements (i‐deals), that can create the conditions for long‐term employment for people with disabilities. Specifically, we explored the factors associated with the development and success of representative‐negotiated i‐deals for people with disabilities. Using focus groups and interviews with employers and job developers, we identified nine factors and two prevailing conditions that explain the contexts in which representative‐negotiated i‐deals will be successful. In doing so, we identified the negotiation stage during which these factors and prevailing conditions influence the i‐deals negotiation process. Representative‐negotiated i‐deals offer insights into how employees with disabilities can find more meaningful work. Together, these findings underscore how the representative i‐deals negotiation process is only viable if the facilitating factors are present and supported, while the absence of these factors can hinder and lead to failure.

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“…Research on the trajectories of autistic adults, and employment opportunities in particular, lag behind research on children and special education (Wehman et al 2014). Nonetheless, there is a growing body of literature that suggests that people with autism, while continuing to face discrimination, are capable of succeeding in competitive inclusive employment (Wehman et al 2013), especially if they had work experience as teenagers (Siperstein, Heyman, and Stokes 2014). Workplace changes may valorize those who would previously have been denigrated, like the person on the autism spectrum with a talent for high technology, more comfortable working and interacting with others online.…”

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Autism, “Stigma,” Disability

Grinker¹

2020

Current Anthropology

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Erving Goffman's 1963 foundational discussion of stigma has been both embraced and critiqued in disability studies and other fields. In Goffman's interactional and ahistorical analysis, stigma was presumed to exist as a natural feature of humanity, deflecting attention away from historical analysis. This article, in contrast, argues that stigma-particularly surrounding "mental illness"-is deeply embedded in historically contingent structural conditions of modern capitalism and ideologies of individualism that shape ideals of the modern worker. Specifically, I use the case of autism-and its commodification in the United States-to show how a stigmatized "mental illness" is intertwined with a range of financial interests that come to depend on the continued production of certain diagnoses. For example, an analysis of the "autism industrial complex" in the United States reveals how economic changes set the conditions for a range of practices that promise to reduce stigma; these include special education, activism/advocacy, and selfrepresentation. These occur in the context of a transition toward more flexible employment and the increasing value of technological and artistic skills often associated with neurodiversity. Despite the fact that a capitalist logic continues to define valuations of personhood, families and autistic self-advocates have been empowered in recent years to use a variety of strategies to decouple stigma and illness and resist conventional definitions of autism as a syndrome of deficits.

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Supported Employment

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How entrepreneurship drives life satisfaction among people with intellectual disabilities (PwID): a mixed-method approach

How entrepreneurship drives life satisfaction among people with intellectual disabilities (PwID): a mixed-method approach

Representative‐negotiated i‐deals for people with disabilities

Autism, “Stigma,” Disability

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