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Organizational values and disability conceptions: the point of view of included people

The aim of this article was to verify in the point of view of people with disabilities (PWDs) who are working in the labor market if there was any relation between their organizational values perceptions and the ways that they saw the disability in the workplace. The research took place in a company that is reference in inclusion in Brazil. Two questionnaires were used: the Inventory of Disability Conceptions in Work Situations and the Inventory of Organizational Values. Semi-structured interviews with PWDs, their managers and the coordinators of the inclusion program and interviews with PWDs, their managers and coordinators of the inclusion program were carried out. It was verified a negative correlation between the PWDs perception about prestige and the form as normality is seen by the company, that means that the PWDs connect the prestige of the company to a conception of deficiency that does not place them differently of a normal standard of human being. Moreover, it was possible to identify aspects considered important in the process of insertion of PWDs as the recognition of the inclusion as organizational value, the necessity of adequacy to the work conditions, the role of the PWDs in the inclusion process and the importance of the relationship with PWDs in a scene favorable to their performance.

Social inclusion; Labor market; Disabilities; Values


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