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Job supervisors with disabilities can boost productivity, new research shows

  • Written by Dustin Cole, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Auburn University
Job supervisors with disabilities can boost productivity, new research showsIt can be easier to discuss your disability when your boss has one too.Westend61/Getty Images

Some large companies, such asWalgreens, Wells Fargo and Proctor & Gamble, are successfully integrating people with disabilities into their labor forces.

But other employers are not doing as good a job. That means they’re losing out on what the...

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