Activities and obstacles in conceiving employment for persons with disabilities

2007. godine Program ujedinjenih naroda za razvoj (UNDP) Hrvatska (www.undp.hr), pokrenuo je projekt – The Right to live in a Community: Social Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities u okviru kojeg je realiziran znanstveni projekt Stavovi nezaposlenih osoba s invaliditetom prema zapošljavanju i neke aktivnosti s ciljem pove anja njihove zapošljivosti, dio rezultata kojeg e biti prezentiran u ovome radu. Cilj je rada utvrditi koje aktivnosti nezaposlene osobe s invaliditetom u Republici Hrvatskoj poduzimaju s ciljem iznalaženja zaposlenja te koje ih poteško e i prepreke, prema njihovoj vlastitoj samoprocjeni, sprječavaju pri vć em aktiviranju za traženje posla. Na uzorku od 573 ispitanika iz sve četiri regije Republike Hrvatske, na odabranim varijablama primijenjenog Upitnika o zapošljavanju za osobe s invaliditetom te korištenjem faktorske analize, izolirano je ukupno 8 faktora. Rezultati govore u prilog velikoj pasivnosti osoba s invaliditetom prilikom traženja posla, uz istovremeno nepostojanje značajnijih pecipiranih teškoća i prepreka pri njihovom aktivniranju. Naglašava se odgovornost samih osoba s invaliditetom u kreiranju vlastite budućnosti.In the year 2007. United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP) for Croatia (www.undp.hr), initiated a new programme - „The Right to live in a Community: Social Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities“ in framework of which a scientific project: “Attitudes of Unemployed Persons with Disabilities towards employment “was developed, as well as some activities which tend to increase their employment ability. Some of these results will be presented in this essay. The aim of this essay is to determine which actions do unemployed persons with disabilities in Republic of Croatia take to find work and what difficulties and obstacles, according to their own evaluation, prevent them from taking more efforts in their job search. Within the sample of 573 examinees, representative of all four Croatian regions, based the on selected variables of the applied Questionnaire for employment of persons with disabilities, and using the factor analysis as well, the total of 8 factors were identified. The results indicate a passive attitude of persons with disabilities towards job search. At the same time, there are no significant difficulties and obstacles which would prevent them to be more active. Therefore, it is important to point out that the persons with disabilities are also responsible for creating their own future