ALCOHOL CONSEQUENCES OF CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING

本研究的问题是， 美国对员工饮酒有不良后果。 它问， 特别是，无论是“缩小规模”和“重新设计”， 在美国公司中很常见，因为他们面临着激烈的竞争， 世界经济，有助于问题饮酒行为，提高 员工的压力和不满程度， 他们的价值感和信心。 此外，它还问， 工人的结构调整和饮酒习惯对工作产生不利影响 性能 它还询问参与自我指导的工作 团队作为一个平衡的潜在破坏性影响， 裁员和重新设计工作。 数据收集方法有很多种， 使用：（l）从各级雇员中选出的面试 （2）焦点小组，使用来自 选定的工作团队;（3）两阶段纵向小组问卷 员工调查。 采用纵向面板设计， 可以更有信心地提出关于 对饮酒行为的改造。 这项研究建立在一系列 调查人员对工作、工作场所和 组织，和问题饮酒，并试图填补重要的 他们研究中的经验缺陷以及研究的经验缺陷 文学一般。 这项研究将在一个大的，西方 沿海“新锐”工业公司的特点是广泛 人口特征和工作技能的变化（从 半熟练的装配工作，工程）的员工，其中有 经历了国际竞争的压力， 作为回应，进行了重大的重组计划。 本文的研究具有重要的理论意义和实践意义。 的 研究将增强我们对个人的理论理解， 工作、工作场所组织、工作态度和 饮酒行为的心理学观点。 拟议的研究还 将通过确定以下方面来提高我们的干预能力： 工作场所和工作，无论是增加或减少 酗酒的可能性。 干预战略， 在充分了解工作场所和工作对 问题饮酒应该有重要的好处，为个人 员工和企业生产力。

This research asks whether the process of corporate restructuring in the United States has adverse drinking consequences for employees. It asks, in particular, whether "downsizing" and "reengineering", increasingly common among American corporations as they face an intensely competitive world economy, contribute to problematic drinking behavior by heightening levels of stress and dissatisfaction among employees, and undermining their feelings of worth and confidence. It asks, moreover, whether restructuring and drinking practices among workers adversely affects work performance. It also asks whether participation in self-directed work teams serves as a counterbalance to the potentially destructive effects of downsizing and job reengineering. A number of data collection methods are used: (l) interviews of employees selected from all levels of the corporation being used in this study; (2) focus groups using members from selected work teams; and (3) a two-stage, longitudinal panel questionnaire survey of employees. A longitudinal panel design is used so that causal statements can be advanced with greater confidence about the impact of restructuring on drinking behavior. The research builds upon a line of research by the investigators on the link between jobs, workplace organization, and problem drinking, and attempts to fill important empirical lacunae in their research as well as that of the research literature in general. The research will be conducted in a large, west coast "cutting edge" industrial corporation characterized by wide variations in the demographic attributes and job skills (ranging from semi-skilled assembly work to engineering) of its employees, which has experienced the pressures of international competition, and which has, in response, undertaken a major program of restructuring. The proposed research has both theoretical and practical import. The research will enhance our theoretical understanding of the individual and joint effects of jobs, workplace organization, job attitudes, and psychological outlooks on drinking behavior. The proposed research also will enhance our intervention capabilities by identifying those aspects of the workplace and the job that either increase or decrease the probabilities of problematic drinking. Intervention strategies that are based on a sound understanding of the effects of the workplace and job on problem drinking should have important benefits for both individual employees and enterprise productivity.