Human Rights and the Duty to Accommodate in Employment: Stakeholders' Knowledge and Attitudes.

The purpose of this study was to measure the level of knowledge and the type of attitudes of key stakeholders on human rights and the duty to accommodate in employment in Canada. Two survey instruments, a 20 item true or false knowledge questionnaire and a 20 item seven point Likert scale attitudes questionnaire, developed by the researcher based on literature review, were administered to 160 participants. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were utilized for this study. Among all participants, the results indicated a general low level of knowledge with a mean score of 11.20 (SD = 2.317) and slightly positive attitudes with a mean score of 90.17 (SD = 14.098) on human rights and the duty to accommodate. Specifically, analysis indicated participants in the human resource occupation, in higher income brackets, working in larger organizations, in a unionized environment and in the public sector have more knowledge than their counterparts. There was also statistical significance for participants in the higher income brackets and working in a unionized environment demographic on the attitudes questionnaire. With respect to correlation factors, both academic attainment/knowledge level and knowledge/attitudes were slightly positively correlated at a statistically significant level. However, in both cases the coefficient of determination (R²) was relatively low at 0.021 and 0.068 respectively. Therefore, the variability of knowledge based on academic attainment and attitudes based on knowledge share 2.1% and 6.8% respectively. In essence, 97.9% and 93.2% of variability can be accounted for by other variables. --P. ii.