Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?

Halie, Getinet

Abstract

The article examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and workplace job satisfaction (JS) using data from WERS2011. Controlling for a rich set of workplace characteristics including organisational culture, the study finds a significant negative relationship between JS and the share of disabled respondents within workplaces. Notably, Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR)-based analysis distinguishing between disabled and non-disabled respondents reveals that the negative relationship found is specific to non-disabled respondents. Moreover, disability equality policies are found to be significantly positively related with disabled respondents’ JS while they are negatively related with the JS of their non-disabled counterparts. The article ponders if there is a co-worker aspect to the WD–JS link and whether HR policies may need to take heed of co-worker dynamics in this respect.

Citation

Halie, G. (2022). Workplace disability and job satisfaction in Britain: A co-worker test?. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(3), 1467-1487. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X211014258

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 8, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 21, 2021
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Deposit Date: Apr 14, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 21, 2021
• Journal: Economic and Industrial Democracy
• Print ISSN: 0143-831X
• Electronic ISSN: 1461-7099
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1467-1487
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X211014258
• Keywords: Britain, WERS2011, workplace disability, workplace job satisfaction
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5465968
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0143831x211014258