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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED199474 AUTHOR: Zadny, Jerry J.
TITLE: Employer Reactions to Efforts to Place Disabled and
Disadvantaged Workers. Studies in Placement Monograph No.
4.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 23 p.; Prepared in the Regional Rehabilitation
Research Institute.
ABSTRACT: Surveys in Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco,
California, asked 448 employers about their exposure and
reactions to job development activity by agencies serving
disabled and disadvantaged persons. Respondents were
generally favorable or indifferent to being contacted,
rated the performance of their disabled employees as being
average or above average in comparison to other workers,
and said that state rehabilitation agency clients tended to
be as qualified as other applicants. Almost all indicated
that they would hire a disabled person who was more
qualified than other applicants and a third indicated they
would give preference to a disabled person who was as
qualified as other applicants. Self-reported hiring of
disabled persons and hiring of state agency clients
increased with the number of employees and with the number
of positions filled. Firms which reported being contacted
by an agency representing disabled persons were more likely
to report hiring a disabled person than firms which did not
report being contacted. The percentage of firms hiring at
least one and of firms hiring more than one disabled person
increased with the number of times a firm was contacted.
Expressions of willingness to hire disabled persons were
not related to self-reported hiring or to hiring of state
agency clients. Larger firms were more likely to hire
disabled workers than smaller firms, and it was recommended
that job developers continue to concentrate their efforts
on larger firms, while keeping abreast of employment trends
and employers' needs. (Author/KC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adults-; Affirmative-Action; Agency-Role;
Disadvantaged-; Employment-Patterns; Employment
Qualifications; Employment-Services; Job-Applicants; Job
Performance; Rehabilitation-Programs
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Disabilities-; *Employer-Attitudes;
*Employment-Opportunities; *Employment-Practices; *Job
Development; *Job-Placement
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