title: Organizational adoption of preemployment drug testing.
abstract: This study explored the adoption of preemployment drug testing by 360 organizations. Survival models were developed that included internal organizational and labor market factors hypothesized to affect the likelihood of adoption of drug testing. Also considered was another set of variables that included social and political variables based on institutional theory. An event history analysis using Cox regressions indicated that both internal organizational and environmental variables predicted adoption of drug testing. Results indicate that the higher the proportion of drug testers in the worksite's industry, the more likely it would be to adopt drug testing. Also, the extent to which an organization uses an internal labor market, voluntary turnover rate, and the extent to which management perceives drugs to be a problem were related to likelihood of adoption of drug testing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management and Decision Sciences, Washington State University, 2710 University Drive, Richland, Washington 99352, USA. cspell@tricity.wsu.edu
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Spell
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Blum
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012449:Safety; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012931:Social Environment; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000379:methods*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*