Implementing Employee Assistance Programs

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The Troubled Employee

Many of us have seen Gus – he’s the one who believes that in order to ease the hang over from last nights party, he has to have a drink the next morning. But it may not stop there. He needs a sip around 10am to take the edge off. Whatever he does on his lunch is his business so he may go home and have a couple of beers before returning to his job - at the factory. Gus probably has a problem with alcohol, as do 6 to 10 percent of the employee population (Myers 5). Of that number, 30 percent of them are manual workers (Myers 5). In any situation, this could become quite costly if there were an accident on the job. There are the obvious medical bills, Workers Compensation, destroyed or otherwise broken machinery, and the cost of training new employees. 47 percent of industrial accidents are alcohol related (Cascio 587). It is clear that an alcoholic employee is a troubled employee.
Next on the list is Sharon. Sharon comes into the office ...

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from their companies. Employee theft ranges from cheating the employer out of time and office supplies to stealing money. Sharon, if given the inkling, could rework the bookkeeping where she works so that she could embezzle money. This may seem a bit far fetched to most people. However, employee theft is cause for concern because it is estimated that white collar crime in this area alone cost businesses $100 million dollars annually (Myers 7).
There may be personal reasons behind why an employee would steal from his employer. Gus could be having financial problems resulting from his excessive drinking. He may be inclined to take work materials from his job in order to do some things ...

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