Hiring People with Disabilities

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Hiring People with Disabilities Should we hire people with disabilities or should we not? A “disability” is defined as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of the individual” (Heneman III, Judge, Kammeyer-Mueller, 2012)The detractors of this idea would say that employing the disabled means that the company will have people performing at a much lower level than needed. Supporters say that these are people too; we need to treat them as such and give them equal opportunity to be employed. There are laws that address this very issue as well, since it has enough debate surrounding it to apparently merit legislation. Should a company with a culture of negativity towards these people change its attitude? People who would strike down the idea of hiring people with disabilities cite reasons such as the high cost of training these people as opposed to people with normal functions. The result of low performance is another downside. These employees rarely have much tenure and the turnover for their position is fairly high. People with disabilities, in short, are a blight to any company and the organization would be making an ill-advised move to employ such people. Still others are in great favor of the idea. Many disabilities are not applicable to the downside of a job. If a man is handicapped and cannot walk, yet he acquires a position within a company as a receptionist, who spends most of his time filing papers and answering phones, then his particular handicap will not even make a difference to the company. Other fans of the movement state that these people with disabilities deserve the same respect as a human being as you and I. Just because they are disabled in some way does not take away their humanity or worth. Many times for these people, it is a success that inspires when disabled people join the

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