‘Leveraging the strengths of the disabled’
July 7th, 2008
Writing in Business Week, Rick Wartzman says expanded legal protections are only part of the solution to entrenched unemployment among people with disabilities. Businesses need to find ways to use everyone’s unique talents, he says, which will make businesses more effective even while making disabilities irrelevant and engendering customer loyalty. “Viewed this way, the disabled aren’t a liability; they’re an opportunity,” he says.
Still, many businesses remain obstinate. They say they worry about the possibility of increased costs, safety issues, the specter of legal liability, and how colleagues and customers will react.
But all of these things are simply excuses for shoddy management.
Wartzman is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University and an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
(Business Week photo)
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