Individuals with disabilities across the supply chain: opportunities to do better while doing good

Purpose This article provides an overview of how the supply chain (SC) scholarly community can generate meaningful research on how to integrate individuals with disabilities (IWD) into organizations. It seeks to inform organizations on how they may be able to take a person-centric approach to task design. Design/methodology/approach By synthesizing real-world examples and literature from both the business and humanities literature, this article provides a conceptual overview of a person-centric approach to task design across various levels of the organization. Findings IWD are often unemployed or underemployed despite labor shortages becoming more severe each year. While there can be barriers to integrating IWD into organizations, there are many examples of organizations that have successfully done so. These organizations have taken various approaches to put individuals at the heart of the organization's tasks and processes. Practical implications By showcasing how organizations can successfully integrate IWD using real-world examples combined with academic literature, this article helps move a person-centric approach from an abstract concept to more concrete activities that organizations can undertake to improve inclusion. Originality/value By synthesizing business and humanities literature side-by-side, this article provides a broad view of integrating IWD to highlight ways to expand this topic in the SC literature.