Assignment:
You are the newly hired HR manager in a family run organization with a long standing informal policy of not hiring people with disabilities. You do a bit of investigation and discover the thought internally, that disabled workers will not be as productive and it will be more costly in the long run to employ them. Assess the situation from an ethical perspective. How might you go about changing this informal policy? What data can you provide about the social benefits of doing this? How would you present this information to the owners? Would you try to take a stand and hire a disabled person to "break the ice"?