TY - JOUR
T1 - Employers' disability management activities
T2 - Descriptors and an exploratory test of the financial incentives hypothesis
AU - Salkever, David S.
AU - Shinogle, Judith
AU - Purushothaman, Mohankumar
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support for this research was provided by UNUM Corporation, by Grant MH43703 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the Johns Hopkins University of Maryland Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness, and by Grant R49CCR302486 from the Center for Disease Control to the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. The authors are particularly indebted to Patricia Owens for numerous discussions and insights, and to the staff of the UNUM Disability Lab whose assistance greatly facilitated all aspects of our work. We also thank Corinne Kirchner, who provided valuable suggestions on a previous version of this paper. James Collins provided capable assistance in the literature search and manuscript preparation processes. The individual authors assume full responsibility for all opinions expressed here, and for any error in analysis or interpretation.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - This paper describes and analyzes results from a survey of disability management activities of 273 employers. Respondents were primarily medium and large firms from all regions of the country and a variety of industries. Results indicated that two disability management strategies recently endorsed in the literature, frontline manager involvement and contracting with outside vendors to integrate disability management responsibilities, were implemented only by a minority of respondents. Statistical analyses were used to test the hypothesis that financial incentives, and (specifically) employers' perceived exposure to disability and other fringe benefit costs, would predict implementation of disability management efforts. Almost all statistically significant findings supported this general hypothesis.
AB - This paper describes and analyzes results from a survey of disability management activities of 273 employers. Respondents were primarily medium and large firms from all regions of the country and a variety of industries. Results indicated that two disability management strategies recently endorsed in the literature, frontline manager involvement and contracting with outside vendors to integrate disability management responsibilities, were implemented only by a minority of respondents. Statistical analyses were used to test the hypothesis that financial incentives, and (specifically) employers' perceived exposure to disability and other fringe benefit costs, would predict implementation of disability management efforts. Almost all statistically significant findings supported this general hypothesis.
KW - Disability management
KW - Employee benefits
KW - Employer practices
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1026614418969
DO - 10.1023/A:1026614418969
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034485623
VL - 10
SP - 199
EP - 214
JO - Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
SN - 1053-0487
IS - 3
ER -