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In the past 2 decades, the issue of disability in the workplace has garnered a great deal of attention. Concern exists over discrimination against and accommodation of people with disabilities, to name just a few issues. In the United States, the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) broadened the concern over disability and work to the fields of law, sociology, economics, and rehabilitation psychology. Similar legislation in other countries (e.g., England, Australia, Canada) has also fueled applied concern and scholarly activity. 1 Research on disability and employment has been less developed in the field of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology, despite the fact that many issues pertaining to the selection, development, and integration of people with disabilities into the workforce are relevant to the domain of I/O psychology. Indeed, since 1990, very few articles related to disability issues have appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology, compared with scores of articles focusing on gender and race issues. Despite the relative dearth of research on disability employment issues in the field of I/O psychology, there is a

Author

Adrienne J. Colella; Susanne M. Bruyère

Publisher

American Psychological Association; American Psychological Association (APA)

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781433808388

Subjects

Psychology, Business