Employee Commitment to the AIDS Service Organization: A Study of the Comprehensive AIDS Program in Palm Beach County, Florida
This study analyzes factors affecting employees' commitment to the AIDS Service Organization (ASO). Based on a survey in a community-based ASO, the study reveals that these employees have a high level of commitment to their organization and that their trust and confidence in the organization and dissatisfaction with government's involvement are two major determinants of their commitment. Implications concerning the results of this study are discussed.
AIDS-Related Documents from 96 American Cities and Counties
T he Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is becoming the most pressing issue facing the American workplace. Of the more than 210,000 people in the United States that have contracted AIDS, 98 percent are between 20 and 65 years of age and approximately 80 percent are in the prime working ages of 24 to 40 (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1992). Equally disturbing, AIDS is the leading cause of death among women between the ages of 20 and 44 in urban areas throughout North America (U.S. Deparment of Health and Human Services, 1991). Currently, about 2.5 million Americans are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS (Slack, 1991). Most of these people, unaware of their condition, are also in the midst of their most productive years. AIDS seems to be a disease which is intent on draining the health and productivity from the work force.
Public opinion about AIDS before and after the 1988 U.S. government public information campaign.
In October, 1987, the Centers for Disease Control mounted a massive public information campaign to alert the public to the dangers of AIDS and to provide information about its transmission and prevention. Using data from two Gallup surveys, one just before the campaign began and the other several months after its conclusion, we examine changes in public information and misinformation about transmission, in concern about AIDS as an epidemic, and in reported behavior to avoid exposure to AIDS. We conclude that although some changes in knowledge did take place, these were essentially a continuation of trends beginning before the public information campaign and continuing well after its conclusion. For these and other reasons, we argue that the effects of the campaign on public information were minimal. However, between 1987 and 1988 there was a small but statistically significant increase in reported condom use, an increase paralleled by increased condom sales between 1986 and 1988. In addition, there was a substantial increase in the number of people expressing concern about AIDS as an epidemic for the population at large. The campaign may well have contributed to both of these changes.