RESEARCH

Since its establishment in 1945, the ILR School has been a pioneer in the study of workplace mental health issues, especially the prevention and treatment of alcohol and other drug problems. Research conducted by Professor Harrison Trice and his students in the fifties and sixties became the foundation for the Employee Assistance Programs, promoted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, to work organizations. Today, approximately 60 percent of Americans have access to an Employee Assistance Program through their employer or union. The R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies continues the ILR Schools commitment to exemplary research and policy development on the prevention and treatment of alcohol and other drugs at work.

Research projects conducted by the Smithers Institute include:

• Workplace Risk Factors and Drinking Problems
• Member Assistance Programs
• Retirement and Drinking Behavior
• Work Stress and Trauma Among First Responders
• Logics of Action
• Helping Behavior
• Alienation
• Organizational Culture and Change
• International and Comparative Research