Abstract The development and increase of disabled employees’ performance is a novelty in the literature of human resources management and the investigation of the phenomenon reveal a series of particularities. Thus, researchers have developed a set of specific development of employees with disabilities and other specific for growth performance. The paper followed two directions: the professional development of disabled personnel and the increase of their performance. The research aimed at analyzing the Romanian organizational environment in the light of developing and increasing the disabled employees’ performance. The study was based on two general objectives which aim at identifying a series of particularities regarding: development of disabled employees and particularities regarding the academic organizational environment where the disabled personnel performs their activity. The general objectives were thus divided in order to outline the specific elements for the development and increase of disabled employees’ performance. The study was centered on a deductive type strategy, based on a quantitative analysis method. The research was of an exploratory, descriptive and explicative type and its stages were set in a logical order to ensure understand the elements described in the analysis on the study results. In order to describe the importance of developing and increasing disabled employees’ performance, we started with the investigation of the phenomenon followed by the explanation of the process which takes place at an organizational level.