1. Development Centre of Vocational Rehabilitation EFRR 2013
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION STUDY:
ADAPTATIONS OF WORKPLACES
FACTOR ANALYSIS RESEARCH IN SLOVENIA
11-14 September, Istanbul, Turkey
Aleksandra Tabaj, M.Sc.

3. What is reasonable accommodation?
About the term
Within the context:
Reasonable Accommodation as a human right Definition in UN CRPD convention
Reasonable Accommodation as an EU obligation definition in EU Directive
EU Reasonable Accommodation study KMU Forschung, Austrija 2008
Definitions in Slovenian legislation

6. Methods
Workplace adaptation study in employment and rehabilitation for PwD, in 2012
Exploratory factor analysis – principal axis factoring method
Based on original American study Dong et al. (2011)
Pilot questionnaire, with added questions and 2 new parts for further development on contents and barriers
Population surveyed: 140 professional (expert) workers in Slovenia, working with adaptations of workplace in VR

7. Research questions (RQ) and hypotheses
1. RQ to the original research
Which factors are essential within work place adjustments
Are factors identical to those discovered in original USA research
Is it possible to minimize 8 factors to smaller number
Are these factors in/non-dependent or interdependent
2. RQ covering the contents
Which areas are recognized
Are areas in/non-dependent or interdependent
3. RQ covering barriers
Which are the main barriers
Are these barriers in/non-dependent or interdependent

8. Hypothesis Two main hypothesis:
1. Three main interdependent factors: employers support, state support and characteristics of disabled person and its workplace influence employment and training reasonable accommodations
2. Systemic and individual factors influence on barriers regarding reasonable accommodations
Within this framework, eight working hypotheses were defined

9. Results of factor analysis

10. Contents of workplace adaptations

12. Barriers for workplace adaptations

14. Contents Main solutions recognized:
Technical/technological solutions, architectural accessibility and organizational solutions
The weekest parts are administrative burdens, knowledge on legislative solutions, duration of procedures and financial resources for reasonable solutions.

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