Overview
- Focuses on organizational contexts of discrimination against workers with disabilities
- Highlights disability in Caribbean region, which has been slow to adopt legislation to protect class of workers
- Contributes to the emerging literature on neurodiversity in organizations
Part of the book series: Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma (PAEWS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Though the enactment of legislation outlawing the discrimination of persons with disabilities is not widespread in the Caribbean, a few select territories have taken positive steps towards recognition of the need to achieve inclusion of persons with disabilities and accept the diversity of the Caribbean populace.
After exploring the general state of disability and discrimination in the Caribbean region, the authors analyze workplace accommodations provided to persons with disability, particularly as relations to IT and assistive devices, before focusing on workplace stigmas related to mental health disability and employment law.
In addition to literature-based analyses, the book includes qualitative case studies, with the goal of providing benchmarks in organizational responses to employees with disabilities. Further, the authors highlight lessons to be learned from other countries in addressing inequality in the workplace for disabled persons.
With its analysis of employment as well as socio-economic and legal issues, this interdisciplinary text will serve as a useful resource in not only understanding the organizational challenges faced by persons with disabilities in the region but also the necessary legislation needed to address discriminatory practices on a wider scale.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Natalie Persadie is Assistant Professor in the Design and Manufacturing Engineering Unit at the University of Trinidad and Tobago.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disability in the Workplace
Book Subtitle: A Caribbean Perspective
Authors: Jacqueline H. Stephenson, Natalie Persadie
Series Title: Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19340-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19339-2Published: 14 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19342-2Published: 14 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19340-8Published: 13 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-3625
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 265
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Management, Organization, Management, Diversity Management/Women in Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Business Ethics