Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Disabil Rehabil. 2020 Mar;42(6):798-805. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1510044. Epub 2019 Jan 13.
This study examines: (a) the attitudes of 196 private sector employers toward hiring individuals with visual impairments and (b) the impact of the employers' individual characteristics (age, gender, and educational level), attitudes toward visual impairment, social contact with them, and the form of business entity on their attitudes toward hiring such individuals. The research tool used is a questionnaire of 15 closed-type questions. The results of this research verify that the examined variables are significant individual predictors of the employers' attitudes that are expressed in 7 out of 15 questions. The majority of the participants provided negative or neutral answers for most of the questions and exhibited the same attitudes with regard to the employment of individuals with visual impairments. Only two variables from the examined ones - "frequency of social contact" and "attitudes toward visual impairment" - appear to affect the employers' intentions to hire people with visual impairments.Implications for rehabilitationThe target should be more favorable employer attitudes toward individuals with visual impairments.The target should be more informative employers in regard to individuals with visual impairments and their skills and capabilitiesVocational rehabilitation professionals should be aware that employers' individual factors, age, gender and educational level are factors shown to affect their attitudes toward the vocational integration of people with disabilities.Informative seminars can be based on the variables and the factors shown to affect employers' attitudes.
(a)196 名私营部门雇主对雇用视障人士的态度，以及(b)雇主的个体特征(年龄、性别和教育水平)、对视障的态度、与他们的社会接触以及企业形式对他们雇用此类个体的态度的影响。研究工具是一份包含 15 个封闭式问题的问卷。研究结果证实，所考察的变量是雇主态度的显著个体预测因素，在 15 个问题中的 7 个问题中得到了体现。大多数参与者对大多数问题的回答都是否定或中立的，并对雇用视障人士表现出相同的态度。在所考察的变量中，只有“社会接触的频率”和“对视障的态度”这两个变量似乎影响雇主雇用视障人士的意愿。
康复建议
目标应该是让雇主对视障人士持更有利的态度。
目标应该是让雇主更多地了解视障人士及其技能和能力。
职业康复专业人员应该意识到，雇主的个体因素，如年龄、性别和教育水平，是影响他们对视障人士职业融合态度的因素。
可以根据显示影响雇主态度的变量和因素来举办信息研讨会。
