UNH Today

Dramatic Discovery

To better understand how customers view employees with disabilities, Valentini Kalargyrou staged a “play” that proved the experts wrong.

At a time when the low U.S. unemployment rate has employers looking into nontraditional groups for recruitment, people with disabilities remain twice as likely to be unemployed as people without disabilities. “People with disabilities have a lot to offer employers, but aren’t always given the opportunity to prove their capabilities and skills,” says Kalargyrou.

Deal With It

Jennifer Griffith is fascinated by the psychosocial issues that get in the way of good decision making, including emotions but also bias, perception, and that old standby, inertia. One workplace issue, sexual harassment, touches on all of these factors.