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  • 1.  [Hrdiv_net] organization profitability

    Posted 04-04-2011 17:05
    Mike-

    Over the years, I think I recall several articles in The Economist about continuing to allow brewery workers to continue to get and drink free beer while on company time/property. The companies that stopped free distribution will have studied your original issues and the unions that opposed changes would also have wanted to support their arguments. My recollection is that brewers in the UK stopped free distribution while German brewers continued free distribution.

    I don't recall what happened in the US, but didn't Canadians recently buy/merge with Coors and the Dutch/Belgians buy Annehauser-Busch? Surely, the US industrial relations staff of any brewer with US plants should be able to give you a couple of quick leads. The BNA material on arbitration awards may also be helpful.

    Best regards,

    Marty

    Martin Asdorian Jr., Ph.D., SPHR, AEP





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    Subject: [Hrdiv_net] organization profitability


    Hello,

    Regarding my original question asking if anyone knew of a study that directly looked at the relation of alcohol or illicit drug use to various measures of organizational profitability, it seems my original expectation was correct--there are none.  

    So let me ask a related and somewhat different question.  I am reviewing the literature that does exist on the relation of alcohol or illicit drugs use on employee productivity, such as attendance, job performance, injuries/accidents, other dysfunctional behaviors at work, and comp claims. I certainly have no background in organizational profitability, but it seems to me that the relation of these employee productivity outcomes to organizational profitability is complex, indirect, and perhaps at times weak.  Certainly these behaviors, if they occur frequently enough and depending on the context of jobs, would incur costs for employers. But the question for me is the proportion of these outcomes due to alcohol or illicit drugs, which may be smaller than typically assumed.  In epidemiology and public health, this would be the population attributable fraction.  In an case, could someone point me to articles/chapters/books that outline/review the relation between these basic (HR) outcomes and organizational profitability?
     
    Thanks
    Mike Frone  

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