The Winter 2014-2015 issue of Diversity in the Workplace is a special issue on “Adapting Job Descriptions.” The issue includes an interview with the Director of Media and Public Relations at the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL). The issue included an interview with Georges Abi Saleh, Director of Media and Public Relations at the Association of Banks in Lebanon, on the benefits of economic integration that increases the country’s overall production rate. The issue introduced job descriptions and their uses, and showcased selected occupations in different productive sectors as examples of the modifications required for job descriptions to be adapted to disabled employees. These occupations include: Administrative secretaries, public accounting, reception services, tutoring, nursing – nurses and nursing assistants, tailoring, delivery services, sales, restaurant services, cleaning services, product packaging, furniture manufacturing, and gas station services. The issue also introduced the steps required to adapt workplaces and the modifications required in the spatial environment or in the way job tasks are performed to make them inclusive.

This issue of the guide was prepared and edited by: Imadeddine Raef, with Mohammed Al-Assi contributing to the preparation and interviews, along with Nada Ozeir, Doha Yahfoufi, and the Economic and Social Inclusion Project team. The guide was supervised by Sylvana Lakkis and art directed by Fouad Mokdad.