| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 復健諮商研究所 === 96 === The purpose of this study presented in this article was to investigate employers’ considerations in hiring and retaining individuals with moderate or severe intellectual disability. Furthermore, the study also examined the effects of organizational and personal characteristics of the employer on hiring considerations. A self-designed questionnaire developed through extensive literature review was used to collect data. Questionnaires were completed by 107 employers, each of whom had employed one or more persons with moderate or severe intellectual disability for at least three months. Frequencies, means, standard deviations were reported. In addition, the collected data was analyzed via t-tests and one-way analyses of variance in terms of whole group responses and within-group differences. The major findings were as follows:
1. The characteristics of most organizations hiring the moderate or severe intellectual disability workers are small and medium enterprises with less than 100 employees, service trades, and non-government establishments. Most common types of jobs for the workers with moderate or severe intellectual disability were entry-level, and low-skill positions.
2. When employers concerned about hiring and retaining employees with moderate or severe intellectual disability, factors related to work habits and attitudes of the intellectually disabled were rated the most important. Factors related to job-related skills of the intellectually disabled and organizational operation factors were rated moderately important. Social factors were rated the least important.
3. There were no effects of personal characteristics of the employer on hiring considerations for the moderate or severe intellectually disabled workers.
4. There were two main effects related to organizational characteristics. First, employers from government establishments rated social factors as significantly more important than those from non-government establishments. Second, social factors and another factors related to work habits and attitudes of the intellectually disabled were considered significantly more important by employers from service trades than by those from industries.
Implications and suggestions for schools, employment service agencies, government, and future studies were provided accordingly.
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