Globally, the prevalence of disability is growing, as is disability awareness. The disability rights movement argues that the right to employment is essential for full participation and human dignity. While there have been improvements related to broad diversity programs and policies, those for persons with disabilities, especially less visible or invisible disabilities, have received less attention.

Contextual factors such as the legal environment and protections, cultural and social values, religious norms, and broader economic conditions shape the employment prospects for persons with disabilities. The De Gruyter Handbook of Disability and Management uses an interdisciplinary lens to study disability and management, integrating perspectives from disability studies, psychology, education, and legal domains. It aims to incorporate a contextually sensitive and global perspective to emphasize actionable areas of inclusion and provides a more international focus by including contributions from across the world including contries and regions that have till date received less attention in the area of disability studies.

Managers, human resource professionals, and policy makers can be more proactive to support persons with disabilities, and more insights, best practices, and tools are needed to facilitate this support. This handbook will guide and support efforts of organizational stakeholders and policy makers as they strive to be more inclusive.

Joy E. Beatty is Academic Department Head of Management and Associate Professor in the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University. Her research focuses on diversity in the workplace, specifically the experiences of employees with disability and chronic illness. Her work has been published in Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Academy of Management Review, Group and Organization Management, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Sophie Hennekam is Professor in Organizational Behavior at Rennes School of Business, in France. Her research revolves around inclusion, diversity and stigmatized and/or invisible populations at work. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Relations.

Mukta Kulkarni is a professor and has held the Mphasis Chair for Digital Accessibility and Inclusion at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She has published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, the Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and is an associate editor for the Journal of Management Inquiry.