Academic Journal
Reasonable accommodation requests: fair evaluation and the role of decision makers
| العنوان: | Reasonable accommodation requests: fair evaluation and the role of decision makers |
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| المؤلفون: | Hawkins, Mona |
| المصدر: | Theses and Dissertations |
| بيانات النشر: | Pepperdine Digital Commons |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Pepperdine University: Pepperdine Digital Commons |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Disabled employee, Reasonable accommodation, Fair evaluations, Decision-makers, People with disabilities--Employment, People with disabilities--Services for, Decision making, Disability Law, Disability Studies, Education |
| الوصف: | The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine fair evaluations and the role of the decision-makers in the reasonable accommodation process. In many instances, fair evaluations in the reasonable accommodation process which disabled employees experienced, were challenging and looked upon as perceived discrimination in decision-making process. A review of the literature identified further clarification and insight into educating decision-makers about the disability laws, and then altering their behavior in granting reasonable accommodations. The literature progressed with discussions surrounding why every qualified disabled employee should be accommodated as long as the reasonable accommodation is not an undue hardship to the agency. Finally, the review identified how federal agencies could best support disabled employees by reassigning the role of the decision-maker into a support role and allowing an independent agency to decide the reasonable accommodations request for a fair evaluation. Through semi-structured interviews with the decision-makers and advisors, who were all experts in the field on Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Chamusco, 2017), the data was collected, analyzed and then coded to reveal significant themes representing the best strategies for disabled employees to receive reasonable accommodations. In addition to themes, the researcher provided a model for educating and training employers to implement the strategy and tactics suggested by removing the challenges disabled employees face in the reasonable accommodation requests and decision-making process as the starting point in eliminating discrimination. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/etd/1312; https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/context/etd/article/2310/viewcontent/Hawkins_pepperdinegsep_6009D_11516.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/etd/1312 https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/context/etd/article/2310/viewcontent/Hawkins_pepperdinegsep_6009D_11516.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.5F076BE5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |