Disability Inclusive Job Crafting

This project came about with the financial support of the European Social Fund (ESF) and in cooperation with:

• GTB
• Tailoring Group
• Konekt
• Mentor
• iDrops

With the ESF project Disability Inclusive Job Crafting we wanted to increase the employability of employees with physical and mild intellectual disabilities, by supporting them in 'wanting', 'being able' and 'daring' job crafting.

By job crafting we mean the proactive self-adjustment of various task-oriented, relational, contextual and cognitive aspects of work so that employees can pursue goals that are important to them.

Job crafting is a skill and thus can be learned. Those who are less skilled can receive training and/or counseling through various service providers. Because of the cost and duration, the existing offerings of these service providers are often not very accessible to people with disabilities. Moreover, job crafting is a very linguistic method, with the disadvantage that low-educated people or people with a mild intellectual disability may be afraid to participate.

Therefore, in this project we developed a new service in which job crafting behavior is stimulated and guided through micro-interventions (i.e. without intensive contact with a trainer or coach, but through online communication technology such as a website, Facebook, WhatsApp, mobile app ... ) and this tailored to people with mild intellectual disabilities. By making job crafting accessible(r) for employees with disabilities, we wanted to enable them to work on promoting their sustainable employability themselves.