Question

Identify a Disability, and as a Manager, what reasonable accommodations would you need to provide for an employee with this disability? Provide an example of the circumstances under which a particular requested accommodation may not be considered “reasonable.

Answer 1

Answer = Disability can be defined as any physical limitation which restricts the individual to perform the normal course of work in a standard set up

We can take the example of a person who has a disabled leg. In this case, the movement of the worker will not be so fast or he will not be able to move from one place to another easily, he will find difficulty in going up-stairs and so on. IN order to accommodate this disability, As a manager, I can provide him the work on the ground floor only and will make sure that the work assigned to him does not need too much physical movement. In fact, I can assign another co-worker to him who will help him to get his job on his desk. Some ramps can be constructed so that he can move easily to the office premise.

Another example where reasonable accommodation is not possible can be seen by the example of a person who has some hearing disability and if he has to be placed in the customer care department where he will take the calls from the customers, Even if he is provided with the devices which can improve his hearing ability, still there will be some sort of problems in understanding and replying to the queries of the customers. Then the possible reasonable accommodation in that department will not be feasible