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Article: Employee Assistance Programs
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- Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed.
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EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
The term employee assistance program (EAP) refers to a program that provides business and industry with the means of identifying employees whose job performance is negatively affected by personal or job-related problems. The EAP arranges for structured assistance to solve those problems, with the goal of reestablishing the employee's effective job performance. The services of an EAP may be contracted, or the program may be an employer's own creation, designed to fit the unique needs of a company. EAPs typically provide professional, confidential, no- or low-cost assistance for employees with personal problems.
EAPs help employers by identifying troubled ...