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Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?

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  • Getinet Astatike Haile

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The article examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and workplace job satisfaction (JS) using data from WERS2011. Controlling for a rich set of workplace characteristics including organisational culture, the study finds a significant negative relationship between JS and the share of disabled respondents within workplaces. Notably, Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR)-based analysis distinguishing between disabled and non-disabled respondents reveals that the negative relationship found is specific to non-disabled respondents. Moreover, disability equality policies are found to be significantly positively related with disabled respondents’ JS while they are negatively related with the JS of their non-disabled counterparts. The article ponders if there is a co-worker aspect to the WD–JS link and whether HR policies may need to take heed of co-worker dynamics in this respect.

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  • Getinet Astatike Haile, 2022. "Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 43(3), pages 1467-1487, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:43:y:2022:i:3:p:1467-1487
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X211014258
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