Adults with autism suffer from an alarmingly high and increasing unemployment rate. Many companies use pre-employment personality screening tests. These filters likely have disparate impact upon the neurodiverse population, exacerbating this societal problem. This situation puts us in a bind. On the one hand, the tests disproportionately harm a vulnerable group in society. On the other, employers have a right to use personality traits in their decisions and think that personality test scores are predictors of job performance. It is difficult to say whether this negative disparate impact is a case of wrongful discrimination. Nevertheless, focusing on the tests, we’ll show that pre-employment personality tests prey in an unjust way on several...
The controversy in human resource practice and law today continues, to wit: –the use of personality...
Despite the increase of working adults with an ASD diagnosis in society (Burgess & Cimera, 2014; Hen...
PURPOSE: Employment rates for autistic people are low, despite increasing employment-focused progr...
In their focal article, Melson-Silimon, Harris, Shoenfelt, Miller, and Carter (2019) discuss the ris...
Autistic people face high unemployment rates. One reason for this may be that hiring processes are i...
The unemployment and underemployment of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been well do...
Commentary submitted for publication in response to ‘Maladaptive personality at work: Exploring the ...
Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a genetic / neurological condition, impacti...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal barriers and their coherences between discrimination ...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal barriers and their coherences between discrimination...
Employment interviews can be challenging for autistic people. In addition to standard interview proc...
United States unemployment rate year end 2017: • General populace = 4% • Employable autistics = 83% ...
The aim of this study was to discover how individuals with autism succeed in entering the job market...
[Excerpt] Many employers utilize personality tests in the employment selection process to identify p...
Despite possessing valuable skills, social communication differences mean that autistic people are f...
The controversy in human resource practice and law today continues, to wit: –the use of personality...
Despite the increase of working adults with an ASD diagnosis in society (Burgess & Cimera, 2014; Hen...
PURPOSE: Employment rates for autistic people are low, despite increasing employment-focused progr...
In their focal article, Melson-Silimon, Harris, Shoenfelt, Miller, and Carter (2019) discuss the ris...
Autistic people face high unemployment rates. One reason for this may be that hiring processes are i...
The unemployment and underemployment of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been well do...
Commentary submitted for publication in response to ‘Maladaptive personality at work: Exploring the ...
Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a genetic / neurological condition, impacti...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal barriers and their coherences between discrimination ...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal barriers and their coherences between discrimination...
Employment interviews can be challenging for autistic people. In addition to standard interview proc...
United States unemployment rate year end 2017: • General populace = 4% • Employable autistics = 83% ...
The aim of this study was to discover how individuals with autism succeed in entering the job market...
[Excerpt] Many employers utilize personality tests in the employment selection process to identify p...
Despite possessing valuable skills, social communication differences mean that autistic people are f...
The controversy in human resource practice and law today continues, to wit: –the use of personality...
Despite the increase of working adults with an ASD diagnosis in society (Burgess & Cimera, 2014; Hen...
PURPOSE: Employment rates for autistic people are low, despite increasing employment-focused progr...