Getting corporations ready to recruit workers with disabilities

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Younes, Nadia

Affiliations: Diversity Initiatives, Wells Fargo & Company, 1740 Broadway C 7300-111, Denver, CO 80274, USA. Tel.: +1 303 863 6289; Fax: +1 303 863 6229

Abstract: Wells Fargo shares their strategies for the hiring, advancing, and retaining people with disabilities in the workplace. Vital to their company model is the belief that companies that have diverse customers needs a diverse workforce to serve them. A corporate culture that promotes continues learning and develops hiring procedures that yields good employee/job matches have been the keys to success.

Keywords: diversity, disabilities, employment

Journal: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 89-91, 2001