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Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 2)

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  • Peter S. WONG

    (Southern Cross University, Australia)

  • Michelle DONELLY

    (Southern Cross University, Australia)

  • Bill BOYD

    (Southern Cross University, Australia)

  • Philip A. NECK

    (Southern Cross University, Australia)

Abstract

United Nations declares that employment is a basic human right. Numerous public policies reference the devastating impact of unemployment on health and social inclusion and seek to promote the economic participation of people-with-disabilities. Some researchers reckon high levels of economic marginalisation are experienced by people with a disability in Australia, in comparison with other OECD countries. In the literature, 80% unemployment rates are reported among working-age people-with-autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is a critical area of concern that is currently under-researched and poorly addressed. "ASD-ness" (ASD behavioural characteristics) can be regarded as personal differences rather than disorders. Acknowledged experts such as Drucker and Cliffton & Harter argue that individuals gain more when they build on their talents rather than focusing on improving weaknesses. The a?th?rs, therefore, take an ASD-ness-strengths-based-approach philosophy which, in a nutshell, regards ASD-ness as a source of employment-strengths and autistic behavioural challenges as personal differences not deficits.

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  • Peter S. WONG & Michelle DONELLY & Bill BOYD & Philip A. NECK, 2022. "Beyond Adaptations and Accommodations: Management Practice that Matters as the Key to Retention of Employees with Autism (Part 2)," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 23(2), pages 210-230, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:rom:rmcimn:v:23:y:2022:i:2:p:210-230
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    Keywords

    positive-autism; management; Drucker; strengths-focused-employment; evocative-analytic-autoethnography.;
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    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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