Adoption of Workplace Substance Abuse Prevention Programs: Strategic Choice and Institutional Perspectives
Chester S. Spell, Terry C. Blum
Academy of Management Journal · 2005 · Volume 48 · Issue 6
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2005.19573113
Abstract
We considered the role of strategic choice and institutional factors in influencing how managers have addressed workplace substance abuse. Substance abuse prevention program adoption was examined in a sample of 360 establishments. Normative pressure, reflected by changes in media discourse about substance abuse, was related to adoption of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) and drug-testing programs. Institutional factors were relevant for adopters of EAPs, but strategic choice factors were more significant for drug testing in the earliest of the three periods of adoption examined here.
Keywords
INDUSTRIAL management, SUBSTANCE abuse, MANAGEMENT, EMPLOYEES -- Counseling of, DRUG use testing, DRUGS & employment, EMPLOYEE assistance programs, EXECUTIVES, PERSONNEL management, EMPLOYEE testing, PROBLEM employees
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