The Problem

Although previous research suggests current human resource management (HRM) policies and procedures do not fully accommodate the diverse strengths and needs of jobseekers and employees on the autism spectrum, the human resource development (HRD) community, including its scholars, researchers and practitioners will benefit from learning more about autism and how people with the condition can develop resilience capacity at work.

The Solutions

Utilizing a community-based participatory research approach (CBPR), we recommend an Autism Work Peer Support Group (AWPSG) program as a new framework that can help the HRD community as well as HRM work coaches and disability employment advisors to foster environments, where people’s social adaptation is key for their resilience capacity development.

The Stakeholders

The current research provides a framework on how a CBPR approach could be utilized to operationalize the design and evaluation of an employment intervention (i.e., AWPSG) that could involve autistic jobseekers in the process of resilience building. Furthermore, our findings indicate that fostering the emergence of a subjectively meaningful employment-focused peer support group program could help enlighten the HRD community about the challenges faced by this particular group and thereby offer effective autism-HRD advice and support to autistic jobseekers, employees and employers, management, work-coaches and disability employment advisors.

中文翻译：

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使用基于社区的参与性研究来增强自闭症成年人的适应力：HRD对就业服务提供的新型干预

问题

尽管以前的研究表明，当前的人力资源管理（HRM）政策和程序不能完全适应自闭症领域求职者和员工的多样化优势和需求，但人力资源开发（HRD）社区，包括其学者，研究人员和从业人员将受益通过学习有关自闭症的更多信息以及有条件的人如何在工作中增强适应能力。

解决方案

我们建议使用基于社区的参与式研究方法（CBPR），作为一个新框架，以自闭症工作同伴支持小组（AWPSG）的形式，可以帮助HRD社区以及HRM工作教练和残疾人就业顾问营造人们所处环境的环境。社会适应是其适应能力发展的关键。

利益相关者

当前的研究提供了一个框架，说明了如何使用CBPR方法来实施可能会导致自闭型求职者参与韧性建设的就业干预措施（即AWPSG）的设计和评估。此外，我们的研究结果表明，促进主观有意义，以就业为中心的同伴支持小组计划的出现，可以帮助人力资源开发界了解这一特殊群体所面临的挑战，从而为自闭症求职者，雇员和员工提供有效的自闭症-HRD建议和支持。雇主，管理层，工作教练和残疾人就业顾问。