Employee Assistance and Organizational Change

This paper discusses the ways in which EAP providers and labour-management commitees might usefully facilitate organizational change. There is growing empirical evidence that “stress” is linked to disease and that psychosocial hazards, such as too many changes within the job, unscheduled overtime, unclear duties, unrealistic expectations, and discrimination will produce health problems. EAP commitees and coordinators are well situated to provide to provide early warnings about such problems and to address barriers to problem resolution.