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Positive Autism: Investigation of Workplace Characteristics. Leading to a Strengths-Based Approach to Employment of People with Autism

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  • Peter S. WONG

    (School of Health and Human Sciences)

  • Michelle DONELLY

    (School of Health and Human Sciences)

  • Philip A. NECK

    (School of Health and Human Sciences)

  • Bill BOYD

    (School of Environment, Science and Engineering)

Abstract

United Nations declares that employment is a basic human right. Numerous public policies reference the devastating impact of unemployment on health and social inclusion and seek to promote the economic participation of people with disabilities. Some researchers reckon high levels of economic marginalisation are experienced by people with a disability in Australia, in comparison with other OECD countries. In the literature, 80% unemployment rates are reported among working-age people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is a critical area of concern that is currently underresearched and poorly addressed. ASD-ness (ASD behavioural characteristics) can be regarded as personal differences rather than disorders. Acknowledged experts such as Drucker and Cliffton & Harter argue that individuals gain more when they build on their talents rather than focusing on improving weaknesses. The authors, therefore, take an ASD-ness-strengths-based approach philosophy which, in a nutshell, regards ASD-ness as a source of employment strengths and autistic behavioural challenges as personal differences not deficits.

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  • Peter S. WONG & Michelle DONELLY & Philip A. NECK & Bill BOYD, 2018. "Positive Autism: Investigation of Workplace Characteristics. Leading to a Strengths-Based Approach to Employment of People with Autism," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 19(1), pages 15-30, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:rom:rmcimn:v:19:y:2018:i:1:p:15-30
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    1. Timo Lorenz & Kathrin Heinitz, 2014. "Aspergers – Different, Not Less: Occupational Strengths and Job Interests of Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(6), pages 1-8, June.
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    Keywords

    : positive autism; strengths-based; employment; Drucker; knowledgeworker productivity; entrepreneurship; human rights; social well-being.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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