Disability Severity, Professional Isolation Perceptions, and Career Outcomes: When Does Leader-Member Exchange Quality Matter?

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• Personal Author:
  Baldridge DC ; Bryan C ; Lyons BJ ; Yang L-Q
• Description:
  Employees with disability-related communication impairment often experience isolation from professional connections that can negatively affect their careers. Management research suggests that having lower quality leader relationships can be an obstacle to the development of professional connections for employees with disabilities. However, in this paper we suggest that lower quality leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships may not be a uniform hurdle for the professional isolation of employees with disability-related communication impairment. Drawing on psychological disengagement theory, we predict that employees with more severe, rather than less severe, communication impairment develop resilience to challenges in lower quality LMX relationships by psychologically disengaging from professional connections and, in turn, bear fewer negative consequences of professional isolation on career outcomes. In two studies of deaf and hard of hearing employees, we find that in lower quality LMX relationships employees with more severe communication impairment perceive being less isolated than employees with less severe communication impairment, and, in turn, report better career outcomes. Overall, our findings suggest that employees with more severe communication impairment may develop effective coping strategies to manage challenges of perceived professional isolation for career outcomes when in lower quality LMX relationships. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communication Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Careers Communication Research Coping Behavior Disability Disabled Workers Leader-member Exchange Mental Health Occupational Psychology Professional Isolation Supervisory Personnel Workforce Development

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• ISSN:
  0149-2063
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067765
• Citation:
  J Manage 2023 Jan; :[Epub ahead of print]
• Contact Point Address:
  Brent J. Lyons, Schulich School of Business, York University, 111 Ian MacDonald Blvd, North York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
• Email:
  blyons@schulich.yorku.ca
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Management
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:081bfdfb7754ec2e2f91c84068c33c6cdd9db82e6fd46e0cb255dc73b98ca468a017cf39c4e91471d75596f56c42cee3b4b2ed5217b18e6fa3392d42fb3a49a6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230025/cdc_230025_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 403.40 KB ]