In this fourth and final episode, Jeremy speaks about how employers need to be more strategic about employing people with disabilities if they wish to succeed.
In the previous three episodes Jeremy outlined the importance of seeing disability inclusion in perspective, taking into account three views; the legislative view, the human rights view and the business case view.
In this episode, Jeremy discusses what he calls his ‘holistic disability equity approach’.
He states that typically, human resources are expected to perform miracles and magically provide new employees with disabilities in an organisation utilising traditional ‘employment cycle’ steps.
Unfortunately, he points out, this is usually done in a vacuum with very little cooperation or disability equity competence being evident in the actual line departments or elements within an organisation. On the other hand, if all elements making up a typical business, such as infrastructure, IT, sales, finance, procurement etc, were to be more ‘disability confident’, they would find it far easier to employ, grow and retain people with disabilities in a meaningful way.
Listen to Jeremy unpack his ‘holistic disability equity’ model in conversation with Lois Strachan.