Disability - The Business Case
Date: 8-12-2003
"Trust and commitment between businesses and their stakeholders will underpin tomorrow's successful companies. Intangible assets make up a high and growing proportion of a company's market value. These assets include reputation and value with key stakeholders, internal and network-based knowledge, and the capacity of management to compete and navigate through increasingly complex environments."
The above paragraph from the "Business in the Community" website introduces the business case for hiring people with disabilities into mainstream employment. The following themes are used to promote the case for giving people with disabilities employment:
- Diversity in the workforce;
- Some key facts [about disability and employment];
- Recruitment;
- Risk management;
- Financial performance and;
- Regulation
You can read the Disability - The Business Case at the following link: http://www.bitc.org.uk/resources/issues/disability/index.html
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