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An experiment varied two aspects of employee drug-testing programs: the purpose of the program (to rehabilitate or to punish) and the drug-testing selection method (for due cause or random and mandatory). Dependent variables were potential job applicants' attitudes toward, intention to apply to, and willingness to accept a job offer from the company. Although the manipulations had no effects, several individual difference variables (personal use of drugs, attitudes toward drugs and drug testing, and subjective norms toward drug testing) predicted the dependent variables.
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Crant, J.M., Bateman, T.S. Potential job applicant reactions to employee drug testing: The effect of program characteristics and individual differences. J Bus Psychol 7, 279–290 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01015755
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