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Eap (employee Assistance Program), Cost Effectiveness: Theoretical Research And Empirical Analysis

Posted on:2009-08-28Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360272993145Subject:Labor economics
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EAP is a consulting service of welfare projects provided to individuals and organizations in the workplace. As it involves employees' psychological issues and many other factors difficult to measure quantitatively, cost and utility research of EAP have been the major and difficult focus to organizations and experts.The purposes of writing this dissertation are: firstly, to let more domestic organizations and individuals thoroughly and deeply understand EAP; secondly, to provide theoretical perspective for the in-depth analysis of cost and utility of EAP; thirdly, to provide reference for improving the effectiveness and pertinence of EAP implementation for organizations through the typical sample research of one enterprise; fourthly, to provide a cost allocation mode of EAP for organizations; fifthly, to expand and deepen the mental health research scope.This dissertation adopts an integrated method of theoretical analysis and empirical research, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis.Innovation achievements of this dissertation are mainly in the content and the method, namely: presents the content of EAP thoroughly and systematically; reviews the cost, utility and empirical studies of EAP; investigates the cost and utility of EAP theoretically, conducts the typical survey of the EAP implementation of a domestic enterprise; establishes multivariate linear regression equation of EAP utility; sets up an allocation model of EAP cost through Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)This dissertation's conclusion is that EAP cost is related to the time and frequency of EAP used by employee under the fixed cost, the tendency of using EAP is related to demographic characteristics and other factors, the utility of EAP is related to the personal preference of using EAP at least, the utility of EAP is leastwise related to 7 factors, the relationship with the supervisor is the most important factor in the workplace, personal health is the largest part of EAP cost.
Keywords/Search Tags:EAP, cost, utility, empirical analysis
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