Business Textbook Coverage of Aids in the Workplace: Results of a Survey

• Published in: Equal Opportunities International Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 24 - 28
• Main Authors: Miller, Alan N, Kohl, John P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Patrington MCB UP Ltd 01.03.1992; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US; Asymptomatic; Employees; Employers; Employment discrimination; Handicapped accessibility; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Implications; Infections; Information dissemination; Law; Publishing industry; Rehabilitation; Schools; Social responsibility; Studies; Workers with disabilities; United States > US
• ISSN: 0261-0159; 2040-7149; 1758-7093; 2040-7157
• DOI: 10.1108/eb010575

More than a decade after the first officially reported case in the United States, AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) now poses a major challenge for American organisations. Despite the plethora of coverage by the news media and an emerging literature in academic and practitioner journals, managers and business educators still lack clear and accurate information about the disease, the legal rights of its victims, and how organisations should deal with employees who have AIDS or who are infected with the HIV (AIDS causing) virus, but who remain asymptomatic.