دانلود کتاب AIDS and the public work force: local government preparedness in managing the epidemic

"AIDS and the Public Work Force" examines the extent to which local governments are prepared to manage the workplace ramifications of the AIDS epidemic. Slack surveyed 526 city managers and mayors across the United States during summer 1989, selecting local government as the focal point because it represents the largest work force in the nation. This study addresses four critical workplace issues relevant to the AIDS epidemic: the legal expectations for coping with AIDS in the work force; practitioners' attitudes on the general topic of AIDS, as well as their views on the issues of employee selection and screening, confidentiality of employee health status and citizen contact with employees in the HIV spectrum; the level of local government preparedness in managing the epidemic's impact on the work force; and factors that explain the extent of management's response to the workplace ramifications of AIDS. While the law requires employers to protect the civil rights of workers in the HIV spectrum, a notable proportion of city managers and mayors express concerns on key workplace issues. Many practitioners favour HIV antibody testing in the workplace. They question, as well, the wisdom of permitting direct contact between infected employees and the citizenry. These city administrators are torn between the arguments favouring the confidentiality of the employee's health condition and those supporting the right of the citizen to know about the workings of government, including disclosure of AIDS-related information about city employees. Practitioners also underestimate the number of workers infected by the disease; based on the number that experts believe to be infected in the general population, practitioners' estimates should be six times higher. Most local governments have not developed any formal workplace plans to manage the AIDS epidemic. The ways in which bureaucracy responds to the HIV spectrum in the workplace will give shape to the level of public services available, as well as the manner in which those services are delivered.