The Working Wounded

摘要: Stigma contributes to a number of negative consequences for members devalued groups. Injured employees report being labeled as malingerers or abusers the health-care, compensation, and legal systems experience discrimination isolation at work. Drawing from research in multiple disciplines on return work stigma, we discuss why workers returning following physical injuries may be stigmatized this fashion outline significant costs associated with such stigmatization. Considering societal, organizational, situational, individual influences, address factors that believe differentiate injured workers, their injuries, workplaces suggest ways these factors, alone together, affect workers' vulnerability stigma. From there, consider how stress-provoking painful process stigmatization those an injury can alleviated by appropriate organizational intervention.