The relationship of drinking and hangovers to workplace problems: An empirical study
The relationship of drinking and hangovers to workplace problems: An empirical study
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DOI：
10.15288/jsa.1997.58.37
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发表时间：
1997-01-01
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通讯作者：
Moore, RS
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作者：
Ames, GM;Grube, JW;Moore, RS
目标：本文报告了财富 500 强企业运营的制造工厂中饮酒模式与工作场所问题之间的关系。方法：数据来自对 832 名小时工（88% 男性）的调查以及工厂的人种学研究。这项研究的独特之处在于它检查了大量随机工人样本，而不是受损的亚人群。此外，这项研究是少数询问员工在工作前和工作期间喝了多少酒，以及他们在工作中宿醉的频率的研究之一。受访者还被问及他们的总体饮酒量以及他们在工作场所遇到的各种问题的经历。结果：双变量分析表明，总体饮酒、工作外大量饮酒、工作时或工作前饮酒以及上班后宿醉与受访者经历的工作问题总数以及与主管冲突和工作中打瞌睡等具体问题有关。多变量分析显示，即使通常的饮酒模式、酗酒以及重要的工作特征和背景变量受到控制，工作场所饮酒和上班时宿醉也可以预测与工作相关的问题。在多变量分析中，总体饮酒和工作场所外酗酒并不能预测工作场所问题。分析显示，职场问题还与年龄、性别、种族、轮班和部门有关。调查结果通过植物民族志的发现进行了解释。结论：虽然这些关系不大，但它们支持这样的假设：工作中饮酒和宿醉与工作场所内的问题有关，并可能导致生产力和士气下降。
Objective: This article reports on the relationship between drinking patterns and workplace problems in a manufacturing facility operated by a Fortune 500 industry. Method: The data come from a survey of 832 hourly employees (88% male) and from ethnographic research in the plant. This study is distinctive because it examined a large random sample of workers, rather than an impaired subpopulation. Moreover, the study is among the few that has asked employees how much they drank prior to and during working hours and how frequently they had been hungover at work. Respondents were also asked about their overall alcohol consumption and their experience of various problems in the work place. Results: Bivariate analyses indicated that overall drinking, heavy drinking outside of work, drinking at or just before work and coming to work hungover were related to the overall number of work problems experienced by respondents, and to specific problems such as conflicts with supervisors and falling asleep on the job. Multivariate analyses revealed that workplace drinking and coming to work hungover predicted work-related problems even when usual drinking patterns, heavy drinking and significant job characteristics and background variables were controlled. Overall drinking and heavy drinking outside the workplace did not predict workplace problems in the multivariate analyses. The analyses show that workplace problems were also related to age, gender, ethnicity, work shift and departments. Survey results are explicated with findings from a plant ethnography. Conclusions: Although the relationships are modest, they support the hypothesis that work-related drinking and hangovers at work are related to problems within the workplace and may lead to lowered productivity and morale.