Applying training to disability management : insights from a scoping review

Training aims at empowering people to enrich work relationships and unleash individual and collective impact on organisational practice. Training sticks to organizational inclusiveness as a human resource management practice, achieving a particular salience when applied to disability management. Scholarly knowledge contextualising training to disability management is fragmented. This article maps the extant scientific debate, framing the state of knowledge about this study domain and envisioning avenues for further developments. Starting from a corpus of 387 contributions, 25 items were selected and thoroughly analysed to shed light on current scholarly knowledge about the nexus between training and disability management. Manifold approaches are available to empower people with disability and engage them at work. They are targeted to supervisors and coworkers, alongside people with impairments in body function and structures

A continuous learning perspective should be embraced to achieve sustainable inclusiveness. Digital technologies should be carefully exploited to advance the contents of training and overcome barriers preventing the inclusion of disabled people at work. Based on the study findings, five training approaches for disability management are proposed, envisioning implications for theory and practice. [Publisher's text]