Navigating Independent Living: Oportunities, Chalenges and Succes Strategies in Disabled Human Resource Management Oportunities

One of the main independent living instrumentş for adults with disability is employment. Once a person with disability is employed that person has taken the first steps towards an indepent life. This is why it is essential for the social work practitioner to understand how employment of persons with disabilities truly works. Given current realities persons with disability are part of the general workforce, they do not work only in protected workplaces anymore, this means managers have to take measures towards inclusive management. In order to correctly promote his clients rights the social work practitioner has to understand that inclusive management is not the same with diversity management even though the two concepts kind of include each other. This article’s main purpose is to describe the opportunities of the employer who employs persons with disabilities, the challenges that come with inclusive management and also present success strategies that have helped both employers and employees with disability to achieve success. This article is planned to be an instrument for the social work practitioner when planning his/her intervention that has as target the employment of his client, who happens to be a person with disabilities.