Telework and People with Disabilities

2017 ◽  
pp. 145-169
Author(s):  
Rachelle Bosua ◽  
Marianne Gloet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
It Support ◽  
Management Issues

People with disabilities face unique challenges to access work and participate in a work culture and environment. The increasing uptake of telework is promising from a digital inclusion perspective for people with disabilities. This qualitative study explored barriers and problems of including people with disabilities through telework in Australia. The study focused on management and worker perspectives and findings indicate that both parties face unique challenges to accommodate and include people with disabilities in telework arrangements. Worker barriers to access telework relate to management attitudes, physical and infrastructure problems, social isolation misconceptions, lack of management trust, insufficient telework opportunities and inadequate management knowledge of IT support and reasonable adjustment for people with disabilities. Management issues involve cultural intolerance towards diversity and disability in general, as well as a lack of policies and processes that create a supportive environment for people with disabilities who wish to telework.

Telework and People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1119-1137
Author(s):  
Rachelle Bosua ◽  
Marianne Gloet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
It Support ◽  
Management Issues

People with disabilities face unique challenges to access work and participate in a work culture and environment. The increasing uptake of telework is promising from a digital inclusion perspective for people with disabilities. This qualitative study explored barriers and problems of including people with disabilities through telework in Australia. The study focused on management and worker perspectives and findings indicate that both parties face unique challenges to accommodate and include people with disabilities in telework arrangements. Worker barriers to access telework relate to management attitudes, physical and infrastructure problems, social isolation misconceptions, lack of management trust, insufficient telework opportunities and inadequate management knowledge of IT support and reasonable adjustment for people with disabilities. Management issues involve cultural intolerance towards diversity and disability in general, as well as a lack of policies and processes that create a supportive environment for people with disabilities who wish to telework.

Access to Flexible Work Arrangements for People With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-161
Author(s):  
Rachelle Bosua ◽  
Marianne Gloet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
It Support ◽  
Disabled Workers

People with disabilities face unique challenges accessing and participating in work. From a digital inclusion perspective, an uptake of anywhere working arrangements may hold significant promise for people with disabilities. This qualitative study explored barriers of flexible work for people with disabilities in Australia. The study focused on manager and worker perspectives and findings indicate that both parties face unique challenges to accommodate people with disabilities in flexible work. Barriers encountered by disabled workers seeking access to flexible working arrangements include management attitudes, physical and infrastructure problems, social isolation misconceptions, insufficient flexible work opportunities, and inadequate management knowledge of IT support and reasonable adjustment for people with disabilities. Management issues involve cultural intolerance towards diversity and disability in general, as well as lack of policies and processes that create a supportive environment for people with disabilities who wish to engage in flexible working arrangements.

scholarly journals Marginalization of Professionalism in Clinical Settings; A qualitative study at Tehran University of Medical Sciences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fateme Alipour ◽  
Zahra Shahvari
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Professional Behavior ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Management Issues

Background: Management-level challenges are among the factors that undermine the individuals' adherence to professional behavior in clinical settings. This study investigated glitches of the management system in clinical settings from the perspective of staff, faculty members, and medical students/residents in hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in 2 parts by exploring the viewpoints of personnel and physicians. In this regard, 8 focus group discussions were performed with 85 faculty members, clinical residents, and interns. Furthermore, 15 focus group discussions were held with 165 staffs. Available sampling method was applied to collect the participants and the data were analyzed using the content analysis method. Results: A total of 22 focus-group discussions were conducted with 250 participants; Participants' age ranged from 24 to 65 years. Participants' education levels varied from diploma to postgraduate for the staff and from medical student to sub-specialist for the physicians. Finally, management-level barriers, which undermine the staffs' ability to adhere to professional behavior in clinical settings were explained with 315 codes, 12 subcategories, and 2 main categories of "macro management issues " and "hospital management issues". Conclusion: Managers are required to consider providing a proper context for enforcing the professional behavior law, selecting middle managers based on their empowerment in performing the professional behaviors, prioritizing the professional behavior in policy making, and promoting the professional behavior in an administrative system consistent with the health system. In selecting the hospital managers, authorities are recommended to consider the managers' professional behavior and power in implementing the professionalism leadership. Moreover, the possibility of conducting professional behavior should be considered in making the policies.

scholarly journals “This Pandemic Brought a Lot of Sadness”: People with Disabilities’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Thompson ◽  
Shadrach Chuba-Uzo ◽  
Brigitte Rohwerder ◽  
Jackie Shaw ◽  
Mary Wickenden
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Narrative Interview ◽  
Over Time

This qualitative study was undertaken as part of the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) funded Inclusion Works programme which aims to improve inclusive employment for people with disabilities in four countries: Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged early in 2020 the work of this consortium programme was adapted to focus on pandemic relief and research activities, while some other planned work was not possible. The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) led a piece of qualitative research to explore the experiences and perceptions of the pandemic and related lockdowns in each country, using a narrative interview approach, which asks people to tell their stories, following up with some further questions once they have identified their priorities to talk about. 10 people with disabilities who were involved in Inclusion Works in each country were purposively selected to take part, each being invited to have two interviews with an interval of one or two months in between, in order to capture changes in their situation over time. The 10 interviewees had a range of impairments, were gender balanced and were various ages, as well as having differing living and working situations.

“Relating through sameness”: a qualitative study of friendship and social isolation in chronic traumatic brain injury

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1161-1178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian E. Salas ◽  
Martin Casassus ◽  
Leanne Rowlands ◽  
Steve Pimm ◽  
Desmond A. J. Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Isolation

The active client: The boundary-spanning roles of internal consultants as gatekeepers, brokers and partners of their external counterparts

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sturdy ◽  
Christopher Wright
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Management Consultancy ◽  
Knowledge Barriers ◽  
Active Client ◽  
Political Character

This article examines the active client of management consultancy as a key agent in managing and mediating knowledge flows across organizational boundaries. From a qualitative study of a particular case of active clients—internal consultants managing their external counterparts—three boundary-spanning roles are identified. Active clients can act as a gatekeeper, broker and partner with respect to both consultants and the knowledge they bring. These roles are shown to vary according to a client’s expertise, formal project responsibilities and personal reputation, as well as the different phases of consulting projects. They not only elucidate an otherwise neglected or static dimension of management consultancy—client activity—but highlight the dynamic and essentially political character of serving as knowledge barriers and/or bridges in the intermediation and co-production of management knowledge across organizational boundaries.

scholarly journals The Value of Nature During Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Study of Client Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Meuwese ◽  
Nienke van der Voort ◽  
Karin Dijkstra ◽  
Lydia Krabbendam ◽  
Jolanda Maas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Outpatient Psychotherapy ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Client Experiences ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Essential Value ◽  
Psychotherapy Session ◽  
Inner World

Nature is considered to have restorative qualities that can potentially improve psychotherapy success. However, little is known about how clients experience nature during psychotherapy. The research aim of this phenomenological qualitative study was to study how clients experience nature during individual outpatient psychotherapy that took place while walking in nature. More specifically we were interested in clients’ inner world experiences. All participants (N = 12) received treatment through licensed therapists for a DSM-5 classified disorder. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. To uncover true lived experiences during these interviews, participants were asked to close their eyes and envision themselves during a psychotherapy session in nature. The verbatim transcripts were coded by means of inductive thematic analysis and the results were member checked. Results showed that nature brings clients closer to their inner worlds. How nature brings this about is unfolded in a conceptual model of lived experience. We argue that psychotherapy can be enriched by considering nature as a supportive environment because bringing clients closer to their inner worlds is of essential value in facilitating successful treatment interventions.

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