Authors: David A. Kravitz and Petra Brock
Title: Evaluations of drug-testing programs.
Source: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 10,
65-86. 1997.
Abstract:
In three experiments undergraduate students at an urban university evaluated drug-testing
programs described in scenarios. Evaluations were inversely related to the false
positive rate and were more favorable when a positive test result led to rehabilitation
than when it led to termination of employment. Inconsistent effects on evaluations
were observed for ability of the test to distinguish between previous drug use
and current drug-based impairment, false negative rate, and implications of drug-impaired
performance for public safety. There was also mixed evidence concerning the relation
between evaluations and respondent belief in a just world. These results provide
some support for Crant and Bateman's (1989) justice-based model of reactions to
drug-testing and have implications for organizational drug-testing policies.
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