IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-030-42966-9_25.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Role of Leadership Behaviour for the Workplace Inclusion and Job Retention of Employees with Psychological Disabilities

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Disability at Work

Author

Listed:
  • Stephan A. Boehm

    (University of St. Gallen)

  • Miriam K. Baumgärtner

    (University of St. Gallen)

  • Anna Z. Brzykcy

    (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

Abstract

Among persons with disabilities, those with psychological impairments tend to face the most severe challenges in terms of societal and vocational inclusion as high numbers of unemployment demonstrate. At the same time, the number of affected persons seems to rise, posing significant challenges for individuals and employing organizations, as well as social insurance systems. Supervisors are important, yet often overlooked stakeholders in the employment and accommodation process. We propose to invest in health-focused leadership training in order to equip supervisors with relevant knowledge on how to successfully include persons with psychological disabilities in the workforce. A case study from Switzerland demonstrates the positive effects of such training on workers’ job retention.

Suggested Citation

  • Stephan A. Boehm & Miriam K. Baumgärtner & Anna Z. Brzykcy, 2020. "The Role of Leadership Behaviour for the Workplace Inclusion and Job Retention of Employees with Psychological Disabilities," Springer Books, in: Sandra L. Fielden & Mark E. Moore & Gemma L. Bend (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Disability at Work, edition 1, chapter 25, pages 433-448, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-42966-9_25
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42966-9_25
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-42966-9_25. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.