The invisible disability of dyslexia in French organizations: framing disability as a skill through global diversity management

Dyslexia is an invisible disability and society is not well informed about the real causes and symptoms associated with it. However, 5 per cent of each generation of individuals in France are affected by this learning disability. As a result, these people are often stigmatized in their childhood and especially during their school career because their spelling level is low and their time management to perform a task is prolonged. These difficulties persist when they arrive in the organizational world and this most often forces them to keep their disability secret (Aimar, 2021). The purpose of this chapter is to look at the experiences of these disabled workers. When they reveal their dyslexia to their supervisor and their team, they can benefit from job accommodations from the organizations, but the latter still need to make a lot of progress in order to create a more disability-accommodating context in France. In this perspective, this chapter proposes some managerial recommendations.