Does the Experience of Organizational Justice Mitigate the Invasion of Privacy Engendered by Random Drug Testing? An Empirical Investigation

Implementation of an Aggressive Random Drug-Testing Policy in a Rural School District: Student Attitudes Regarding Program Fairness and Effectiveness

“…These findings are in line with attitudinal surveys of adults that suggest that perceived inaccuracies of RDT programs erode overall perceptions of the usefulness of such programs. 14,15 Our finding that stronger beliefs in the possibility for falsepositive and -negative results were linked to greater perceptions of fairness was somewhat perplexing. Perhaps, the relationships between these predictors and perceptions of fairness are mediated by constructs not measured in this study, such as general intelligence or specific knowledge about the limitations of RDT.…”

“…Student attitudes toward RDT are likely to be critical factors affecting the implementation of drug-testing policies that are often seen as controversial by students, parents, and other community stakeholders. Results of adult surveys regarding drug testing suggest that resistance to specific RDT programs may be heightened if participants perceive the policy is unfair, 12,13 is applied unevenly, 12 yields inaccurate results, 14,15 and emphasizes punitive rather than rehabilitative consequences following positive tests; 14,16 if they perceive that substance use is not a significant problem at their work or school; 17,18 and if they engage in illicit substance use themselves. 12,19,20 If a consensual resistance to the RDT policy develops among students, RDT may struggle to engage the ''reverse peer pressure'' dynamic (where students desiring to resist substances cite the RDT program as an ''excuse'' for declining use) that is hypothesized to lead to reduced substance use.…”

Organisational databases of personnel information: Contrasting the concerns of human resource managers and employees

“…Although many sources cite invasion of privacy as a negative impact of monitoring and surveillance (e.g. 9 to 5 1990, Tepper and Braun 1995), the thought processes of employees here seem to have shifted the focus from protection of employee rights (e.g. to privacy) to the justification of employer rights (e.g.…”

The Impact of Individual Ethics on Reactions to Potentially Invasive HR Practices

“…Results of their field experiment indicated that negative reactions to drug testing may be reduced by giving employees advance notice of scheduled drug tests and responding to detected drug use with employee assistance programs rather than discharge of employees. Additional research on employee drug testing programs has found that variables such as accuracy and job relatedness reduce perceptions of privacy invasion (Dwight and Alliger, 1997;Racicot and Williams, 1993;Tepper and Braun, 1995).…”