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Offering flexible working opportunities to people with mental disabilities: The missing link between sustainable development goals and financial implications
Warmate, Zoe Eldaly, Mohamed K.A. Elamer, Ahmed A.
Warmate, Zoe
Eldaly, Mohamed K.A.
Elamer, Ahmed A.
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2021-05
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(c) 2021 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license.
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A global response to Covid‐19 pandemic has triggered issues related to stress and social restrictions; thus, mental health is seen as a particular area of concern for social well‐being for both policymakers and corporate regulators/companies. Given that mental health intersects with most, if not all, of the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), this research brought to light issues surrounding employment of people with mental disabilities (PWMDs) and the financial merits of employing them. An online survey was administered to PWMDs to elicit what possible flexible opportunities could enable them to gain or stay at work. Interviews were also conducted with human resource managers and financial managers. Our results show that there are currently no flexible working opportunities available for PWMDs, which could enable them work effectively to improve both self and general economic growth.
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Warmate Z, Eldaly MKA and Elamer AA (2021) Offering flexible working opportunities to people with mental disabilities: The missing link between sustainable development goals and financial implications. Business Strategy and the Environment. 30(4): 1563-1579.
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