published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

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published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

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The intent of this research was to determine whether a complete psychological test battery was needed to determine if an individual is capable of successful job placement. If the stated goal of rehabilitation is to produce a successful rehabilitant, perhaps one test, or one subtest, out of the entire psychological battery is as efficient a predictor of success as an entire psychological workup. Thus, more time, money, and manpower can be spent in the rehabilitative process.Success was defined as a client being offered services, accepting such services, completing employment that was in line with the training received and maintaining that employment for a six-month period.Failure was defined as a client completing the entire program of testing, accepting offered services and not completing a program of vocational training.Data for the study was collected from adults who had voluntarily come to regional offices of the Indiana Division of Vocational Rehabilitation between the years 1979 and 1982. Statistical analyses were done on 199 clients. Most of the 199 rehabilitants were given the following battery of tests: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Wide Range Achievement Test, Peabody Individual Achievement Test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Self Directed Search or StrongCampbell Interest Inventory. It was decided not to use the Peabody Individual Achievement Test or the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory because they limited sample size.The psychometric data were all post hoc. They were analyzed by a Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and by Stepwise Regression. References were considered statistically significant at the .05 level. F at 1,200 degrees of freedom was 3.80.The Wide Range Achievement Test, subtest 4 (spelling grade level) was significant in best predicting success at the .05 level with an F score of 5.04524. The S scale (social interest) in the Self Directed Search was the next significant subtest in predicting success at the .05 level with an F score of 4.78224. The C scale (conventional) in the Self Directed Search was the next significant in best predicting success at the .05 level, with an F score of 6.17417. The best multiple predictors of success are subtest 4 of the WRAT (F, 4.956) combined with S (F, 10.900) and C (F, 8.588) scales of the SDS. The F level or tolerance level was insufficient for further computation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 372-422). / Microfiche. / 2 v. (xiii, 422 p.), bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis (DTech (Public Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2008. / The research investigates trends in the employment of people with disabilities within the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) and develops a normative model to address the matter of low employment and progression rates of people with disabilities within the PGWC. The advent of democracy in 1994 in South Africa witnessed the enshrinement of the fundamental human rights of all citizens, particularly within previously disadvantaged groups. Yet, in spite of rights being legislated for people with disabilities, such people within the public service represented only 0.15% of the total staff complement of the public service nationwide, as at December 2004, compared to the 2% target legislated in 1995. The research examines a philosophical and theoretical approach to managing the employment and retention of people with disabilities within the public service in Chapter Two, before providing a synopsis of the existing constitutional and legislative framework that supports access to employment for people with disabilities. The subsequent Chapters examine trends in the employment of people with disabilities within the PGWC, in conjunction with a situational analysis of disability in South Africa. The recruitment and selection practices within the PGWC are then examined in order to determine whether specific disability actions have been incorporated into the documentation. Finally, key recommendations follow a description of the research methodology and the presentation of the most salient findings of the study. The proposed normative model incorporates eight sets of criteria jointly derived from the literature and the empirical survey. The sets of criteria must be put in place for the achievement of a sustained increase in the employment of people with disabilities. The findings on disability employment in the PGWC are generalised to the remaining eight provinces in the country on the basis that the same policy and procedure documents are regulatory in all nine provinces.

The area of performance appraisal of the handicapped individual is a relatively uncharted domain. Previous studies have tended to either lump categories of handicaps together or to concentrate their performance appraisal on simplistic performance criteria. This dissertation focused upon the performance of a group of physically impaired workers and their non-impaired co-workers. Central to this research endeavor was a comparison of the aggregate performances of both groups of workers through the use of parametric factor and discriminant techniques as well as the non-parametric sign test.

This thesis presents research conducted on work, income, and educational characteristics of disabled people in Canada. This research is specifically concerned with the comparison of gender inequality between the disabled population and the non-disabled population. The research question is 'what is the consequence of disability on gender inequality?'. Using survey data from the 1986 Health and Activity Limitations Survey (HALS) a series of statistical comparisons where made between the non-disabled and disabled populations across a wide range of social and economic characteristics. The statistical research presented includes both cross tabulations and regression analyses. The research concludes that the extent of gender inequality - 'the gender gap' - is comparable between the non-disabled and disabled populations. The stigma of disability does not appear to either diminish nor exacerbate gender inequality in paid work. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate