Number of paid, full-time management employees (managers) with disabilities at the organization as of the end of the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote how their organization defines management levels, as well as any specific focus on stakeholders with particular disabilities. See usage guidance for further information.
This metric is intended to capture the number of unique, individual managers with disabilities employed by the organization in full-time roles as of the end of the reporting period. This metric excludes Temporary Employees (OI9028).
Organizations can refer to the glossary for additional guidance on defining management. The composition of management varies with an organization’s stage and type, but managers are generally responsible for setting objectives (defining goals for the group and deciding what work must be done to meet those goals), organizing (dividing work into manageable activities and selecting the right people to accomplish them), motivating and communicating (creating a team out of individuals through decisions on pay, promotion, and communications), measuring (establishing targets and interpreting and analyzing performance), and developing people.
This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact: it may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.
This is a submetric of Full-time Employees: Total (OI3160), which has 7 other related submetrics.
Metrics identified as "cross-category" are those that are relevant to any IRIS+ Impact Category or Impact Theme (i.e., these metrics are not specific to any particular industry/category or theme).
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released
No change.
March 2016 - IRIS v4.0 Released
No change.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
Immaterial change. Minor revision to metric name and definition language for clarity.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released
New metric. Full-time Employees: Disabled Managers (OI8292) was developed via the IRIS Taxonomy Development Group.
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