Abstract
Three-hundred-forty-one executives responsible for hiring decisions in Fortune 500 industrial and service corporations returned a mail questionnaire measuring their attitudes toward persons with severe disabilities. Attitudes were favorable to the employability of persons with severe disabilities both in terms of its advantages for the individual with a disability and the lack of disadvantages for others in the work setting. Attitudes were more favorable in industrial than service corporations in the area of lack of disadvantages for others in the work setting. These attitudes co-existed with general attitudes toward persons with disabilities that approximated those held by other population groups and are also similar in industrial and service corporations. Significant subgroup differences in attitudes existed. Executives with prior contact with persons with disabilities had more favorable attitudes in both industrial and service corporations. This was a trend in service corporations and a highly significant difference among the industrial corporations. Thus, the ability of contact variables to predict attitudes was more pronounced in the industrial than in the service corporations.
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