The main purpose of this study was to investigate hamburger fried chicken companies, whether they were willing to conform their companies operations to supported employment with mental retardation. By this research I hope that companies in this sector will make more use of mental retarded people. Da-An area in Taipei forms the domain of this research. The method that was used was a face-to-face questionnaire administration, which was held among 22 managers。
This results of this study were as followed:
1. When comparing how managers operate in coordination-conditions like「pay for work」with the original intention of supported employment, it became clear that these intentions were substantially different. A requirement for allowing mental retarded people to work into this sector is that they must able to reach a standard working level within a trial period of three to seven days.
2. Most managers think that people with mental retardation are more suited for sanitary work and that they can interact easier with each other during their work. Generally 30% of these food-and-drink sector companies can provide over 20 hours of work each week. Most opinions on mental retarded personnel were that they could get an increase in wage, but that it wasn''t possible for them to promote in office.
3. The degree for supported employment, that most managers can accept, is listed from high to low as encouraging ''normal'' colleagues to interact with them, encouraging mental retarded personnel to participate in fellow workers leisure time activities and encouraging them to accept maybe to them abnormal behavior, but which is normal to us.
4. Every manager, who is using supported employment, is positively minded about the social services that he/she receives and is of opinion that these services are very important.
5. The two most attractive factors for using supported employment are that public welfare institutions are able to give assistance to them immediately. And that it would promote the companies image in its community and its relation with it. That mental retarded personnel have a low rate of mobility and that companies don''t have to pay for their work were middle-low attractive power. Lastly, that mental retarded personnel have low salaries was the least attractive power.
