Which of the Following Is Characteristic of Employee Assistance Programs

question 41

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is characteristic of employee assistance programs?

• A)A growing number of large organizations and many smaller ones are attempting to help employees with problems,this help being purely altruistic.
• B)The accepted viewpoint now is that employees' personal problems are private until they begin affecting job performance.
• C)Easy to measure,and a very real cost associated with troubled employees,is the loss of business and a damaged public image.
• D)Organizations attempt to avoid employees' problems that are not job related.

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