Track: Diversity and Inclusion / Women in Industry & Academia (WIIA)

Abstract

Diversity and Inclusion is gaining attention across the globe. People with disabilities (PWDs) formulate an important  diversity group. The organizations are consistently aiming at forming inclusive workplaces for PWDs. Building inclusive workplace is highly aimed at effective interactions between the workforce with and without disabilities, top management’s involvement and PWD employee’s perception of inclusion.  This study proposes an in-depth analysis of challenges of inclusion of PWDs. The two phased study commences with extensive literature review and identification of challenges of inclusion of PWDs. These challenges are divided into seven categories and further sub categories. In the second phase, Best Worst Method  (BWM) is applied to rank the identified challenges. This study focuses on the effective investigation and prioritization of challenges in building inclusive workplaces.