ABSTRACT
There are many important aspects involved in hiring employees and evaluating job performance and satisfaction. One primary concern for employers is to assess a worker’s ability to thoughtfully and efficiently carry out his or her job. Maintaining a certain level of functioning is necessary to carry out day-to-day tasks and to keep a company running smoothly; consequently, the negative impacts that mental illness can have (i.e., absenteeism, accidents, interpersonal conflict, poor job performance, and poor job satisfaction) on employees and their co-workers makes this area critical to workplace performance (Kahn & Langlieb, 2003). For example, in a longitudinal, prospective, epidemiological study of disability and its relationship to days lost from
work, Broadhead, Blazer, George, and Tse (1990) found that individuals with major depression and minor forms of depression were all at greater risk of having days lost from work than were those individuals without depression.
