Walter Scanlon

Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in the Workplace

Managing Care and Costs Through Employee Assistance Programs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on strategic management intervention designed to help employees whose job performance has deteriorated because of alcohol and drug dependency, Scanlon describes employee assistance programs (EAPs) which provide training and consultation services for management and act as a resource when an employee problem has been identified. The EAP objective is to reduce the incidence of chemical related problems and the costs associated with them. There are over 20,000 EAP programs in operation nationally. This book places the issue of intervention or employee termination in its proper perspective.

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Deteriorating job performance resulting from alcohol and drug dependency requires special handling and specific skills. Developing these skills and learning what to do with them are not difficult tasks. Employee assistance program professionals provide such training for key personnel. Focusing on strategic intervention designed to help employees with personal problems that interfere with job performance, Walter Scanlon describes the functions and benefits of employee assistance programs (EAPs), discusses their training and consultation objectives, and shows how EAPs effectively identify and address such problems. An important EAP goal is to reduce both the incidence of alcohol- and drug-related problems and the costs associated with them. EAPs target employees whose work performance has deteriorated because of chemical dependency or other personal problems. Scanlon has divided his discussion of EAPs into seven workable segments: the concept of EAP; EAP history; the history of drug and alcohol use; current drug and alcohol use in the United States; the legal, corporate, societal, and individual influences on rehabilitation and EAP; governmental influences including the Drug Free Workplace Act and mandatory drug screening; and cost considerations, including the trend toward managed health care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9780275936761
• ISBN-10: 0275936767
• Artikelnr.: 21755071

Autorenporträt

WALTER F. SCANLON is a management consultant with fifteen years experience in the fields of chemical dependency treatment, employee assistance programming, and marketing. He is published widely in the areas of marketing health care services, employee assistance programming, public relations, chemical dependency treatment, and wrote the first edition of this book. Mr. Scanlon holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), is a Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP) and a Credentialed Addiction Counselor (CAC).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Scope and Cost of Chemical Dependency Chemical Dependency: The
Person, the Definition, the History The Employer Response to Chemical
Dependency: A Historical View The Government Response: Drug-Free Workplace
Legislation EAP Practice and Process Managed Health Care Versus Managed
Health Costs EAP Cost Benefits and Considerations Marketing the EAP:
Employees Who Refer Themselves Marketing Treatment: The Business of
Recovery The Standards and the Structure Creating a Climate for EAP
Utilization Unions, Managements, and Joint Programs Testing for Drugs: A
Nebulous Solution The Corporate Culture EAPs Make Corporate Sense Legal
Considerations and Implications External Employee Assistance Programs
Summing It Up and Sorting It Out Index