A number of health-related substances and problems can undermine employee performance at work. One particularly revealing question asked managers to identify the health and related issues that were important enough to get their attention were most safety and environmental-related issues. Well, it was ranked very near the bottom of the all concerns listed by managers. Today, health promotion is the vital business importance and therefore, health promotion professionals need to educate managers on the importance of health promotion.
Alcoholism is a serious and widespread disease.
Because of alcoholism, absenteeism occurs more often and therefore, efficiency declines. Also, quality and quantity of the work decline dramatically. Of course not, because they have to do the work of their alcoholic peer. For all of us it would be pretty difficult to recognize the alcoholic on the job because the symptoms, like tardiness, should be very similar to any other disease or illness. As this author says, Many companies use outside agencies such as alcoholics anonymous, psychiatrists, and clinics to deal with the problems of alcoholism and emotional illness.