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RILEY II, CHARLES A. Disability And Business: Best Practices And Strategies For Inclusion.
University Press of New England, Lebanon NH: 2006. 1584655224 / 9781584655220 Uncorrected Proof. s Softcover. Reading copy.
Although more and more corporations are including diversity in their business plans, one major group has been left out: people with disabilities. The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act promised an end to discrimination more than a decade ago, but the unemployment rate for people with disabilitiesÑphysical and mental, visible and invisibleÑremains high, and businesses remain uncertain about how to hire, manage, and market to what is by far America's largest minority. In this comprehensive guide to incorporating disability into corporate strategiesÑfrom hiring to selling to office architectureÑRiley argues that disability and business need one another. In exchange for inclusion and empowerment in the workplace, people with disabilities bring a trillion-dollar consumer market to the bargaining table, revenues untapped by most major companies. Instead of relying on the paternal "it's the right thing to do" attitude, Riley emphasizes the business case for inclusion, pointing the way to higher sales volume and a talent pool of creative thinkers, the "user-experts" who know best how to reach the community. Based on more than 100 interviews with inside sources at Microsoft, IBM, Cingular, Boeing, SunTrust, and other major companies that have already enjoyed success and recognition in the disability field, Riley identifies the best ways to integrate disability into a company's diversity strategy and shows how successful integration has the potential to transform the way a company does business, enhancing profits as well as reputation. This is the first book to explain disability culture to the full spectrum of industry and across all departments; and it is the first to provide corporate leaders with a master strategy for making disability a productive and profitable aspect of their business plans. Riley's central premise Ñ that the two sides are already capable of helping one another, but have not recognized how to make this happen Ñ speaks directly to the needs of each community and proposes a practical agenda that will directly benefit both. "Some authors have tried to write about disability and employment, but Charles Riley covers the issue in a comprehensive and realistic way. He explains the nuances of disability, provides real resources and strategic assistance to companies everywhere committed to, or interested in, hiring people with disabilities. A practical and indispensable guide for managers, recruiters, job seekers and placement counselors." Ñ Alan Muir, Executive Director, Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities (COSD).
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RILEY II, CHARLES A. Disability And Business: Best Practices And Strategies For Inclusion.
University Press of New England, Lebanon: 1584655224 / 9781584655220 First Edition. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
Although more and more corporations are including diversity in their business plans, one major group has been left out: people with disabilities. The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act promised an end to discrimination more than a decade ago, but the unemployment rate for people with disabilitiesÑphysical and mental, visible and invisibleÑremains high, and businesses remain uncertain about how to hire, manage, and market to what is by far America's largest minority. In this comprehensive guide to incorporating disability into corporate strategiesÑfrom hiring to selling to office architectureÑRiley argues that disability and business need one another. In exchange for inclusion and empowerment in the workplace, people with disabilities bring a trillion-dollar consumer market to the bargaining table, revenues untapped by most major companies. Instead of relying on the paternal "it's the right thing to do" attitude, Riley emphasizes the business case for inclusion, pointing the way to higher sales volume and a talent pool of creative thinkers, the "user-experts" who know best how to reach the community. Based on more than 100 interviews with inside sources at Microsoft, IBM, Cingular, Boeing, SunTrust, and other major companies that have already enjoyed success and recognition in the disability field, Riley identifies the best ways to integrate disability into a company's diversity strategy and shows how successful integration has the potential to transform the way a company does business, enhancing profits as well as reputation. This is the first book to explain disability culture to the full spectrum of industry and across all departments; and it is the first to provide corporate leaders with a master strategy for making disability a productive and profitable aspect of their business plans. Riley's central premise Ñ that the two sides are already capable of helping one another, but have not recognized how to make this happen Ñ speaks directly to the needs of each community and proposes a practical agenda that will directly benefit both. "Some authors have tried to write about disability and employment, but Charles Riley covers the issue in a comprehensive and realistic way. He explains the nuances of disability, provides real resources and strategic assistance to companies everywhere committed to, or interested in, hiring people with disabilities. A practical and indispensable guide for managers, recruiters, job seekers and placement counselors." Ñ Alan Muir, Executive Director, Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities (COSD).
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RILEY II, CHARLES A. Disability And The Media: Prescriptions For Change.
University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2005. 1584654732 / 9781584654735 First Edition. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
A journalist's passionate exposŽ of the media's portrayal of the disabled. In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and profitable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of "overcoming." According to Riley, this clichŽ plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of "fixing" the disability and rendering the "sufferer" as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the "back of the book" health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends. Riley's lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the "discovery" by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity.
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