title: Corporate culture and employment of people with disabilities: role of social workers and service provider organizations.
abstract: Corporate culture reflects an organization's value system and impacts the recruitment, retention, and promotion of employees. Individuals with disabilities are positively impacted by a corporate culture that espouses and establishes a diverse workforce as a priority. This article provides an overview of corporate culture and the employment of individuals with disabilities, and presents a case example of the corporate culture of a large not-for-profit disability service organization. With an in-depth understanding of corporate culture and disability issues, social workers can be particularly helpful to applicants and employees with disabilities as well as employers.
authors.affiliation: Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA. ddsamant@law.syr.edu
authors.forename: Deepti
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Samant
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soffer
authors.forename: Brigida
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hernandez
authors.forename: Meera
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adya
authors.forename: Omolara
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Akinpelu
authors.forename: Joel M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Repoli
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Blanck
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004651:Employment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012947:Social Work