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Disability Management: Issues and Answers
In 1994, CEC Associates, Inc., published Managing Workplace Disability: New Views on Workers’ Compensation Reform, a collection of articles the company had written that addressed workplace disability-related issues. In the Introduction to that collection, we wrote: “Few of the potential readers of this Compendium will need to be convinced that the system is not working.” It will not come as a surprise to the hardworking and dedicated rehabilitation professionals working in the field today that not much has changed.
The purpose of this Compendium is to again circulate some fundamental ideas to explain why the private and public disability systems are not working and to convey practical remedies that employers and unions might adopt to repair what has been called the “broken paradigm.” This Compendium includes articles that were researched and written after 1994, as well as selected articles from the original compendium. As we said in our 1994 Introduction, we hope these articles will serve to enlighten and encourage the professionals involved with workplace disability-related issues to create working environments that benefit both employers and employees. We also hope that the ideas and proposed remedies found in these articles will be of real interest to both employers and employees. Additionally, we hope that the new articles will be of interest to lawmakers charged with the responsibility of returning state workers’ compensation systems to the cost-effective human capital strategy originally intended to “make people whole.”
The articles are organized in what we believe to be a logical order that will facilitate flow and continuity. The Compendium is divided into four sections:
Part I. Workplace Disability: Issues
Part II. Proactive Disability Management: Answers
Part III. Forensically Measuring and Explaining Disability
Part IV. A Final Word: Toward Organizational Health
It is especially important to note that the work of CEC Associates and, by extension, the articles that have evolved from that work contain practical applications as opposed to academic research findings. CEC Associates is engaged 100 percent of the time in serving clients with real, pressing needs. These articles are observations derived from application of both seminal ideas and evolving concepts in disability management. Because these articles have been presented elsewhere, this Compendium may contain some duplication and/or redundancies. We do not apologize for redundancy; instead, we encourage the user of this Compendium to appreciate that hearing, considering, and employing a particular methodology repeatedly generally results in mastery. We hope that revisiting concepts during the reading of this collection of articles leads to improved disability management.
To view the Table of Contents for Disability Management: Issues and Answers, complete with abstracts for each article, please click here.
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