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Human Relations virtual special issue: Workplace experiences of persons with disabilities

  • 1.  Human Relations virtual special issue: Workplace experiences of persons with disabilities

    Posted 07-23-2018 18:56

    FREE ACCESS until Friday 3rd August – please spread the word!

     

    Human Relations virtual special issue: Workplace experiences of persons with disabilities

     

    Please find attached the introduction (free access) to the above virtual special issue:

    http://journals.sagepub.com/page/hum/collections/virtual-special-issues/persons-with-disabilities

    Readers can enjoy free access to included articles until Friday 3rd August.

     

    Human Relations virtual special issues bring together and highlight related research on a particular topic. Each collection is compiled and introduced by one of the journal's editors; here we have Catherine E Connelly alongside David Baldridge, Human Relations Editorial Board member and author on this topic.

     

    Extract from introduction

    Despite comprising 15% of the world's population, people with disabilities are under-represented in the workplace with unemployment rates of 80–90% in developing countries and 50–70% in developed countries and arguably even less represented in the academic literature regarding social relations in and around work. This set of articles is an exception. It includes seven papers that focus on the experiences of employees with different types of disabilities (e.g. Huntington's disease, mental health conditions, mobility impairments, hearing loss), using a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Although many of these papers consider the role of stigma, many also identify some positive aspects to living with a disability. The study of persons with disabilities' experiences is interesting in its own right, but these articles offer useful insights for researchers interested in stigma, marginalized groups, identity, identification, disclosure, discrimination and interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. [Read More]

     

    We hope you enjoy reading the full introduction and included articles!

     

    Virtual special issue contents

     

    Introduction [FREE ACCESS]

    Catherine E Connelly and David Baldridge

    Human Relations, 71(9): 1288‒1290

    https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718777727

     

    Identity, mental health and work: How employees with mental health conditions recount stigma and the pejorative discourse of mental illness

    Hadar Elraz

    Human Relations 71(5): 722–741.

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0018726717716752

     

    The shaping of sustainable careers post hearing loss: Toward greater understanding of adult onset disability, disability identity, and career transitions

    David C Baldridge and Mukta Kulkarni

    Human Relations 70(10): 1217–1236

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0018726716687388

     

    Constructing positive identities in ableist workplaces: Disabled employees' discursive practices engaging with the discourse of lower productivity

    Eline Jammaers, Patrizia Zanoni and Stefan Hardonk

    Human Relations 69(6): 1365–1386

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0018726715612901

     

    Othering, ableism and disability: A discursive analysis of co-workers' construction of colleagues with visible impairments

    Nanna Mik-Meyer

    Human Relations 69(6): 1341–1363

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0018726715618454

     

    Discrimination and stigmatization in work organizations: A multiple level framework for research on genetic testing

    Lizabeth A Barclay and Karen S Markel

    Human Relations 60(6): 953–980

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0018726707080082

     

    An exploration of access and treatment discrimination and job satisfaction among college graduates with and without physical disabilities

    Elissa L Perry, Wallace Hendricks and Emir Broadbent

    Human Relations 53(7): 923–955

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0018726700537002

     

    Stigma management through participation in sport and physical activity: Experiences of male college students with physical disabilities

    Diane E Taub, Elaine M Blinde and Kimberly R Greer

    Human Relations 52(11): 1469–1484

    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872679905201106

     

                                                                                                                                  

    You can view other VSIs here: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/hum/collections/index

    and other September issue articles here: http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/huma/71/9

     

    Best wishes,

    Claire

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    Claire Castle, Managing Editor, Human Relations, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

    Email: c.castle@tavinstitute.org         Telephone: +44 (0)7432740583         Website: www.humanrelationsjournal.org



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    Bert Schreurs
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    bert.schreurs@vub.be
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