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Managing AIDS in the Workplace

NCJ Number
119042
Author(s)
S B Puckett; A R Emery
Date Published
1988
Length
191 pages
Annotation
This book offers a comprehensive approach to managing AIDS in the workplace, with attention to its impact on health benefits, insurance coverage, employee assistance, and public relations.
Abstract
The discussion establishes the following principles: Employees with AIDS do not pose a threat to other employees or to customers in the workplace; AIDS cannot be transmitted during normal social or occupational interactions; education resolves irrational fears about AIDS; and AIDS is manageable in the workplace. Throughout the discussion, the book emphasizes two key points: define the needs of the organization in advance of an AIDS crisis on the job and treat AIDS like any other life-threatening condition. The book addresses the legal and ethical issues of mandatory testing for AIDS and the need to ensure confidentiality while protecting the rights of employees to a safe work environment. Citing examples of successful corporate policies for managing AIDS in the work setting, the book presents a step-by-step approach for a management strategy. The five steps to a planned approach to AIDS are to define the organizational point of view about AIDS; determine whether a formal policy about AIDS is needed, and if so, what kind of policy is preferable; decide how, to whom, and under what circumstances the organization's point of view about AIDS will be communicated; decide how, to whom, and under what circumstances there will be education about AIDS; and decide how the organization will respond to an AIDS crisis and how the crisis will be resolved. Appended supplementary material, a resources list, a subject index.

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