EMPLOYERS’ PERCEIVED EMPLOYABILITY, HUMAN RELATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY, LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Gainful employment by individual helps to satisfy economic and social demands in any given society. However, some factors may predict unemployment of many which makes individual stands the risk of economic stress. It should be noted that many factors that put individual at risk of unemployment are coming out of negative attitudes of the society towards some attributes that make individual at variance of the norms of the society. This may be illconceived and concluded especially considering people with disabilities potentials. This study therefore, is on assessment of employers’ perceived employability, human relation and productivity of people with disabilities using exploratory research design. Multistage sampling was employed using purposive and convenient methods to select establishments, firms, organization and 150 participants. The instruments used for data collection were employability scale (0.68), Productivity inventory (0.70), and Human relation scale (0.73). Two research questions were answered and one hypothesis tested. The finding revealed that people with disabilities suffer employment difficulty because of negative perception of employers, people with disabilities (PWDs) did not enjoy favourable human relations from employers and coemployees without disabilities and there was joint contribution of employers’ perceived employability and human relation on the perceived productivity of PWDs. It becomes imperative that constant advocacy on the need for total inclusiveness of people with disabilities in all spheres of life should be the priority of both government and non-governmental organisations