Author: Jung Yoon
Yoon, Jung, 2024 A person-centred organisational management model for enabling meaningful socio-economic engagement for people with cognitive disability, Flinders University, College of Business, Government and Law
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This study investigates how to enable meaningful socio-economic participation for people with cognitive disability, using the creative arts as an avenue for engagement through four sub-questions:
• what are the characteristics of inclusive art organisations in terms of organisational management?
• how have inclusive art organisations enabled socio-economic participation for artists with varying degrees of cognitive disability?
• how can socio-economic participation be enabled for individuals with cognitive disability? and
• what challenges have inclusive art organisations experienced in enabling the socio-economic participation of people with cognitive disability at individual, organisational and societal levels?
Creating opportunities for meaningful social inclusion with broad individual, organisational and community benefits is examined using grounded theory and a case study methodology, identifying how three different inclusive arts organisations enable artists with cognitive disability to participate in various socio-economic opportunities. The study explores the concept of Social Role Valorisation and the person-centred approach underpinning the National Disability Insurance Scheme (introduced by the Australian Government in 2013) to understand how socially valued roles and meaningful engagement can be embedded in the current support landscape for people with cognitive disability. The research contributes critical strategies for organisational management in the form of a practical model to enable socio-economic participation, structured around three pillars: access, inclusive practice and professionalisation working together as a person-centred management approach. This study finds out that the socio-economic participation of people with cognitive disability can be enabled and promoted through professionalisation process established on access and inclusive practice. This study also identifies individual, organisational and societal challenges to creating and satisfying the conditions of access, inclusive practice and professionalisation. As a deliberately practical model for inclusive organisational management, this model has relevance in other contexts and industries beyond arts organisations.
Keywords: Organisational management, people with cognitive disability, socio-economic engagement, inclusive organisational culture, professional development, disability employment, access, inclusive practice
Subject: Disability Studies thesis
Thesis type: Doctor of Philosophy
Completed: 2024
School: College of Business, Government and Law
Supervisor: Ian Goodwin-Smith