Connecting Practices to Outcomes: Lessons from the Federal Sector Workplace

We have conducted mixed methods research in support of the following project objectives:

• Develop a thorough knowledge base of how diversity practice adoption impacts outcomes, such as disability representation, hiring, and advancement.
• Reveal whether diversity practice adoption moderates differential employee experiences and attitudes of individuals with disabilities and whether employee experiences and attitudes explain relationships between practice adoption and outcomes.
• Enhance our understanding of findings and increase relevance to our target audience of employers through focus groups of employer representatives and employees.
• Broadly share our findings.

• Connecting Practices to Outcomes: Lessons from the Federal Sector
• Connecting Agency Practices to Federal Disability Discrimination Complaints

Enayati, H., von Schrader, S., Erickson, W., & Bruyere, S. M. (2019). Minimizing discrimination and maximizing inclusion: Lessons from the federal workforce and federal subcontractors. In S. Bruyere (Ed.), Employment and disability: Issues, innovations, and opportunities (Vol. 2019, pp. 33–64). Labor Industrial Relations Research Association.

von Schrader, S., & MacDowell, K. (2021). Connecting practices to outcomes: Lessons from the federal sector workplace - Preliminary findings from the Federal Employee Focus Groups [report]. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/103625

von Schrader, S., Shaw, L., & Colella, A. (2024). Perceptions of federal workplace attributes: interactions among disability, sex, and military experience. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 34(4), 239–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/104420732211289

von Schrader, S., Enayati, H., & Bruyere, S. M. (anticipated publication fall 2026). Using multiple data sources to understand disability in organizations: Lessons from the federal sector. In M. Saleh & S. Bruyere (Eds.), Elgar research handbook on disability and society. Elgar Publishing.