PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A WORKER BASED AND PARTICIPATORY MODEL FOR EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS (INDUSTRY, OCCUPATIONAL).
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Title
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PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A WORKER BASED AND PARTICIPATORY MODEL FOR EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS (INDUSTRY, OCCUPATIONAL).
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Identifier
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AAI8614692
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identifier
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8614692
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Creator
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MOLLOY, DANIEL JOSEPH.
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Contributor
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Harold Lewis
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Date
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1986
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social Work
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Abstract
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The National Maritime Union Peer Committee Project was administered by the author of this study, who is also Director of the Personal Service Unit of the NMU Pension and Welfare Plan, over an eight-month period beginning in mid-February, 1985. Participants were active merchant seamen and members of the Union, whom the Personal Service Unit serves.;The core programmatic theme of Employee Assistance has been supervisory intervention around documented, impaired job performance, with the use of worker based disciplinary mechanisms as a motivator to seek help. It is a model which reflects a top-down design based on the most traditional and accepted notions of how work organizations operate. This project aimed at exploring the use and carefully reporting on the implementation of a model, in large measure, poles apart from the original notion. It was a worker based, peer intervention and networking strategy, which was more horizontal than vertical, more democratic than authoritarian, more bottom-up than top-down in design. The central purpose of this project was to tell the story of the implementation of this model, with an eye toward its viability and the replication of the implementation strategy again at the NMU or elsewhere.;The full implementation of the peer model in the NMU program will take two to three years. While the project does address planning and evaluation issues after the initial implementation phase, those planned program activities are beyond the dissertation focus. For the dissertation, the project aimed at finding and drawing out all the issues, concerns, themes, hesitancies, positive and negative responses, fruitful and barren conceptualizations in the project's attempt to build and send forth the first peer committee. To tell the story as richly and thoroughly as possible, the project employed four research procedures. First, it reported on and analyzed interview material. Second, through participant observation, observation by other staff members and tape recording reviews, the project extracted the major themes from the training-dialogue component. Third, the Project Director kept a log of his own ongoing observations and reflections as the project advanced. Fourth, the Project Director kept an organizational/occupational log to consider how factors extraneous to the project may have exerted influence on it.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.S.W.
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Program
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Social Welfare
