{"id":3109,"date":"2021-12-13T06:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T06:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/?post_type=journal_article&#038;p=3109"},"modified":"2021-12-13T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T06:50:45","slug":"disability-in-the-workplace-legal-barriers-affecting-human-resources-management-practices-and-workplace-accommodation-for-the-persons-with-disabilities-in-sri-lanka-a-review-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"journal_article","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/journal_article\/disability-in-the-workplace-legal-barriers-affecting-human-resources-management-practices-and-workplace-accommodation-for-the-persons-with-disabilities-in-sri-lanka-a-review-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability in the Workplace: Legal Barriers Affecting Human Resources Management Practices and Workplace Accommodation for the Persons with Disabilities in Sri Lanka &#8211; A Review of Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-968407 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-450465 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-959121 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: inherit;\">M. A. N. Chandratilaka and Prasadini Gamage<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Abstract<br \/><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\">Disability can be defined as a physical or mental condition that barred such individual from properly interact with physical or social environment. This difficulty provided root course for historical marginalization of persons with disabilities in the society and visible in various fields ranging from education to employment and being analysed by various scholars. This literature review explores the question how various scholars approached the social political and legal issues arise out of low employment rate of the persons with disabilities and expressed their views on how to solve them. Since a systematic literature review has not been conducted in Sri Lanka on this topic, to answer the aforesaid research problem, author will evaluate multiple scholarly approaches towards the barriers affecting human resource practices and workplace accommodation for persons with disabilities and explore solutions available in the existing literature to resolve such issues. This research will be based on literature review methodology and first of such work in the field of disability rights in Sri Lanka. Thereby, results of this research will be produced by collecting and synthesizing previous research for advancing knowledge and facilitating theory development. However, literature survey was limited to the works which recently published in English language and meet certain scholarly standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif;=\"\" color:black\"=\"\">Key words:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif;=\"\" color:black\"=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:=\"\" italic\"=\"\">Persons with Disabilities, Employment, Workplace Accommodation, Review of Literature<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-188863 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-76617 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-467895\" style=\"height: 20px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-220977 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-373724 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-538538 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Download<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-936768 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-535674 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-594815 kc-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Paper-8.pdf\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Download\">\n\t\t<i class=\"fa-file-pdf\"><\/i>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-707228 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-775838 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-302097 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif\"=\"\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif\"=\"\">Cite this paper: <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif;=\"\" mso-bidi-font-style:italic\"=\"\">M. A. N. Chandratilaka and Prasadini Gamage.(2021).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif\"=\"\">Disability in the Workplace: Legal Barriers Affecting Human Resources Management Practices and Workplace Accommodation for the Persons with Disabilities in Sri Lanka &#8211; A Review of Literature, <span style=\"letter-spacing:-.05pt\">Vidyodaya<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing:-.45pt\"> <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing:-.05pt\">Journal<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing:-.45pt\"> <\/span>of<span style=\"letter-spacing:-.4pt\"> <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing:-.05pt\">Management, 7(2), 177-203.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif\"=\"\"><span style=\"letter-spacing:-.05pt\"><\/span><span style=\"color:black;mso-themecolor:text1\">DOI:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31357\/vjm.v7iII.5100\"><span style=\"font-family: \" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",=\"\" serif;=\"\" color:=\"\" black;=\"\" background-image:=\"\" initial;=\"\" background-position:=\"\" background-size:=\"\" background-repeat:=\"\" background-attachment:=\"\" background-origin:=\"\" background-clip:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31357\/vjm.v7iII.5100<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman\",serif;letter-spacing:-.05pt\"=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","journal_article_cats":[213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal_article\/3109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/journal_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"journal_article_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/vjm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal_article_cats?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}