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.
Letting Women in? Gender Mainstreaming in Regional Policies
Gender mainstreaming has over the last ten years become the dominant strategy of integrating gender issues in public policy. This article presents regional policy as a broad and increasingly important policy field to study, and analyses gender mainstreaming in this policy field in the Norwegian and the Swedish contexts. How do problem representations surrounding “gender equality” and “gender mainstreaming” produce meanings of gender as well as construct possibilities for change? The article shows that, despite some differences between the two countries, gender mainstreaming in regional policy can to a large extent be read as meaning “women”. Women are in this context given a narrow subject position and are constructed as lacking what it takes to produce sustainable regional growth. The concluding discussion highlights the relations between the implementation of gender mainstreaming and neo‐liberal political trends.