Management Decision-Making on the Employment of a Person With a Disability, Considering Occupational Safety Issues

The total number of people with disabilities in the world tends to grow, so the problem of ensuring the employment of this category of workers is relevant for any country in the world. In Ukraine, before the war, the number of people with disabilities was more than 2.7 million. Since the beginning of the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the number of people with disabilities has been increasing every day, which leads to complications in the socio-economic situation in the country and requires the implementation of urgent measures aimed at raising the effectiveness of social, in particular, labour integration of this population category. Despite the advantages for the development of the company, the employment of persons with disabilities in real-life workplaces involves difficulties caused by the need to take into account individual needs and implement measures for reasonable adaptation in the workplace. Considering this, an employer has to understand how employing persons with disabilities will affect the company. When making this decision, the issue of ensuring the safety of work for this category of employees is also essential. The article examines the approach to creating an information base for forming an employer’s management decision regarding the employment of a person with a disability using the desirability function of E. Harrington. Technical, economic, legal, and other factors can be decision-making criteria. The article proposes to use such criteria as the necessary volume of adaptation measures regarding the workplace of an employee with a disability, the level of performance of production tasks, and the level of safety of work performance. As a result, the equation of the desirability functions of the individual criteria under consideration was obtained, according to which it is possible to derive a generalised desirability function, enabling the employer to make reasonable decisions regarding the possibility of providing a workplace for a person with a disability. The study’s results will help improve the efficiency of employment of people with disabilities. Keywords: disability, workplace, labour process, decision, safety.