Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace: Employee Assistance Programs and Strategic Alternatives

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Since the 1950s, social scientists have devoted serious attention to the relationship between alcohol and the workplace. In recent years, awareness of the tremendous costs, both human and financial, associated with alcoholism has led to a dramatic increase in both scholarly and practical interest in the field. Although researchers working in this area are relatively few, they have sustained a lively interest in the alcohol/work nexus and have attracted others to the field through conferences where ideas and research strategies are exchanged. The larger part of Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace provides an up-to-date thorough examination of the problem, the research, and the possible solutions. This volume is directed toward both practitioners and researchers, providing a wide range of new data and new ideas that bear upon coping with alcohol problems in the workplace. Part I addresses issues regarding the distribution and correlates of alcohol problems and alcohol use among employees. Part II is centered on issues associated with Employee Assistance Programs. And Part III is a general conclusion and overview offering suggestions and implications for the practitioner in the workplace. Because this collection supplies the most current thinking and information on controlling alcohol problems in the workplace, it will be of particular interest to human resource management and to employee assistance specialists, who are now required to pass a certification examination.

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. . . Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace will be of interest to scholars, employee assistance professionals and HR managers. It taps the knowledge of some of the brightest experts in the area and provides new data and current ideas on how to deal with alcohol in the workplace. All of the topics are well-indexed, and each section contains a detailed bibliography.-HR Magazine
This volume should have general appeal beyond those narrowly interested in alcoholics or workplace interventions, because it shows applied social science at its best, questioning assumptions, demanding rigor, and refusing to be bound by a single perspective for analysis.-Contemporary Sociology
"This volume should have general appeal beyond those narrowly interested in alcoholics or workplace interventions, because it shows applied social science at its best, questioning assumptions, demanding rigor, and refusing to be bound by a single perspective for analysis."-Contemporary Sociology
." . . Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace will be of interest to scholars, employee assistance professionals and HR managers. It taps the knowledge of some of the brightest experts in the area and provides new data and current ideas on how to deal with alcohol in the workplace. All of the topics are well-indexed, and each section contains a detailed bibliography."-HR Magazine

Author Bio

PAUL M. ROMAN is Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Research on Deviance, Institute of Behavioral Research, University of Georgia. He is on the editorial board of the Employee Assistance Quarterly and is the editor or author of many books and journal articles.