Concerns regarding whether the employees with disabilities will fit in socially and get along with their coworkers. Specific concerns include coworkers’ attitudes to employees with disabilities, negative impact on morale, that such employees will be disruptive of the workplace environment or be dissatisfied about their accommodations, or that coworkers will be resentful of having to compensate for perceived low productivity.

Integration Concern 1: The Impact of Works with Disabilities on Coworkers

Managers hold concerns regarding how to approach integration of workers with disabilities within the broader organization. Hence, organizational culture and the value of inclusive practices to employers and employees affect how well workers with disabilities are adjusted to their workplace. 

Integration Concern 2: The Organizational Integration of Workers with Disabilities

The social integration stage involves two major categories of employer concerns: the impact of workers with disabilities on coworkers, and the organizational integration of workers with disabilities.

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Bonaccio's study looks to understand the implications of employers' views and attitudes based on employer involvement and concern on specific management areas of the employment cycle. 

Bonaccio's Study on Employment Participation for Employees with Disabilities 

As indicated in Bonaccio's study, the depicted employment cycle shows employers' concerns about employees with disabilities at each given stage of the process. Concerns about accommodation come up primarily at the selection stage.

The Employment Cycle 

Bonaccio, S., Connelly, C. E., Gellatly, I. R., Jetha, A., &amp; Martin Ginis, K. A. (2019). The participation of people with disabilities in the workplace across the employment cycle: Employer concerns and research evidence. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35(2), 135–158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-018-9602-5 

The Participation of People with Disabilities in the Workplace Across the Employment Cycle: Employer Concerns and Research Evidence

The recruitment and organizational attraction stage involves three major categories of employer concerns: the number of qualified people with disabilities, the recruitment of qualified applicants with disabilities, and the attractiveness of job openings to people with disabilities. 

Recruitment and Organizational Attraction

Social Integration

The performance management stage involves three major categories of employer concerns: the job performance of workers with disabilities, occupational health and safety behaviors of workers with disabilities, and disciplinary action and termination of workers with disabilities.

Performance Management

Once potential candidates have been identified, the hiring process moves to employee selections. The employee selection stage involves three major categories of employer concerns: the qualification of applicants with disabilities, the selection process for applicants with disabilities, and the cost of accomodations.

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