¶ … Removing Smoking in the Workplace Increases Productivity
The purpose of this proposed study is to determine if removing smoking from the workplace has increased workplace productivity. The writer will explore the question by using a survey study method. The participants will include workers across the nation in varying levels of work and careers. The proposed study is designed to measure whether or not there is an increase in productivity since employers began refusing to allow smoking in the workplace environment. There are several factors involved in the study including a look at five previously published studies regarding smokers and their habits. In addition the writer explores some of the different concerns for productivity that have been studied throughout the years with regards to smokers including secondhand smoke damage, absenteeism and dollars lost. This proposal suggests the direct question of affect on productivity from the time workplaces began to ban smoking on their premises. The study will include smokers as well as non-smokers who are still working as well as retired and include things such as if they smoke and if so what the ban does to their productivity. Nonsmokers will be questioned as to their productivity as well to determine the effect banning of smoking in the work place has any bearing on productivity.
The proposed study will involve several geographic areas as well and different ages, genders and races so that the research has a better chance of being pure and accurate.
The data will be collected through online survey abilities as well as mailed survey packets.
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Introduction-
Literature Review-
Methodology
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Implications of the study-
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INTRODUCTION
For several decades now the American population has been aware of the dangers of smoking. Lung cancer, asthma and chronic disease are just a few of the problems that have been linked to smoking; however millions of Americans continue to smoke each day. It was not that long ago those workers were allowed to smoke in the workplace. Ashtrays graced every desk and the cafeteria was always filled with the haze of smoke from the smokers who were taking their breaks. It was a time of constant exposure. In more recent history virtually every state in the nation has taken a look at the smoking issue and slowly but surely smokers have been banned from performing their habit during work. Whereas smokers used to have ashtrays on their desks they now are relegated to the back parking lot for their relaxation. Smokers crave cigarettes. They must have their fix at certain time intervals or their bodies enter the beginning stages of withdrawal. This can cause unpleasant symptoms which may interfere with the ability to focus and concentrate on the job at hand. Smokers have been reported to have a habit more powerful and addicting than heroine. Refusing to allow smoking in the workplace places added stress on the smokers who begin to feel the cravings between their regularly scheduled break times. Non-smokers, however, are no longer exposed to second hand smoke at the workplace. This study is designed to ask if the ban on smoking in the workplace has increased productivity. The study will answer the question through the questioning of smokers as well as non-smokers and their employers. The hypothesis is that banning smoking in the workplace has in fact increased productivity nationwide.
This study will address the smoking and the desire and whether or not removing the ability to smoke at work has had a positive impact on the productivity of employees.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Workplace: The place of employment for the participants of the study
Secondhand smoke: Exposure to smoke that is gained from people smoking nearby but the actual secondhand smoke person not smoking.
Ban on smoking in the workplace: The refusal to allow smoking on the premises
Participants: Those who answer the survey questions
Method: The way the information is gathered
Data: The actual answers of the participants
Literature review: A review of previously published studies that are relevant to this proposed study
Limitations: Possible shortcomings of the study and the reasons for it being a shortcoming
Variables: Various aspects of the study that can be manipulated and cannot be manipulated. They are not the actual results but are elements that have an impact on the results.
LITERATURE REVIEW
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