A Commentary on Santuzzi et al. (2024): Managing Uncertainty for Disability Disclosure
评论了Santuzzi等人关于组织语言影响残疾员工披露行为的研究，引入不确定性管理理论解释员工在披露时如何寻求公正信号，并为组织减少披露不确定性提供建议。
In their focused study on the effect of organizational language on workers’ behaviors related to disclosing a disability, Santuzzi and coauthors (2024) explore how employees with disabilities (EWD) weigh the decision to disclose their conditions to employers. We advance this work by offering a relevant theoretical perspective, Uncertainty Management Theory (UMT; Lind & Van den Bos, 2002) for considering EWD’s decisions to disclose. UMT holds that employees strongly look for cues of workplace procedural and interactional justice, in moments of uncertainty. We assert that disclosing one’s disability in moments like those studied by Santuzzi and colleagues (2024) pose high uncertainty for employees who look for signals of just treatment. We explore those processes as they relate to disability disclosure and introduce practical suggestions for organizations to reduce uncertainty surrounding disability disclosure.