Effectiveness of ProServe Training in Reducing Alcohol Use

This report evaluates the effectiveness of ProServe training in reducing alcohol and substance use. The hypothesis is formulated and evaluated with empirical evidence and counterarguments. The report suggests that while ProServe training has been effective in reducing alcohol use among staff, intervention is required from an early age to reduce alcohol consumption among minors.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Introduction
• Alcohol and use of substances are considered to be one of the great
threat for the youths and the adults to continue the everyday life.
• The purpose of this report is to investigate the research question
referred as is training in ProServe effective.
• The research also formulates a hypothesis that ProServe and other
alcohol service training programs are effective to reduce the practice
of alcohol and other harmful substances.

Effectiveness of the hypothesis
• According to Liddle and Lung (2015) the purpose of a hypothesis is
related to in-depth understanding of the motive and aim of the
research.
• In the words of Kornish and Ulrich (2014) the hypothesis is considered
to be the theme of the research that points out the main topic of the
research and the possible outcomes due to implementing the
research methods.
• In fact, the hypothesis of a research is based on the research question
(Boutrus et al., 2017).

Hypothesis
• H1: Training in ProServe is effective to reduce the use of alcohol and
alcohol related products.
• H0: Training in ProServe is not effective to reduce the use of alcohol
and alcohol related products.

Variables in the hypothesis
• The independent variable are reduction of alcohol and alcohol related
products.
• The dependant variable is the effectiveness of the training program
carried out by ProServe training.

Empirical evidences and counter
arguments
• The report of Newton et al., (2016) advocated that effective programs
were important to deal with the reduction of alcohol addiction.
• For the research Hennessy and Tanner-Smith (2015) used the school
based alcohol education programs that were entitled to deal with the
reduction of alcohol related issues dominantly.
• From this point of view it can be stated that the role of the
educational programs are very useful to decrease the use of the
alcohol as those programs try to portray a clear picture related to the
adverse impact of alcohol in an individual life (Eberl et al., 2014).

Empirical evidences and counter
arguments
• According to Smith et al. (2014) study, alcohol addiction is more of an
outcome of depression and anxiety. Sleeplessness or insomniac trend is
contributed to a lot in the process of growing alcohol addiction.
• Moreover, the research of Stockings et al., (2016) pointed out the role of
the early intervention and pro-active treatments are very significant in
order to deal with the process of illegal substance abuse among the
young people.
• Moreover, Wiers, Field and Stacy (2016) ascribed that the cognitive
principle of reduction of alcohol addiction is referred as the important
aspect of core psychological intervention in the alcohol prevention
process.

Evaluation of the hypothesis
• The empirical evidence of the hypothesis shows that these training
programs have been effective for the training staffs. In the past
decade, this training program has made sellers and the servers more
aware of their social responsibility.
• The sellers and servers that provide alcohol for business have to be
Proserve certified for the business and the full time and the part-time
staffs. There are series of certifications that the enterprises require in
order to sell and serve at stores.

Implication of the findings
• The major implications that can be drawn from the findings is that
even though these training programs have been effective but the
reduction in alcohol consumption among the minors are still high.
• This means that intervention is required from the early ages and there
are certain among of sellers and servers that still serve alcohol to
minors and intoxicated.

Recommendation
• It is important to get complete understanding of the causal factors
related to the alcohol addiction because unless the reason behind the
alcohol addiction will be addressed it is impossible to implement an
effective measure in order to prevent the alcohol addiction.
• Moreover, it can be argued that the age factors are important to make
an effective measure. In other words, the alcohol reduction programs
are considered to be an important aspect depends on the age factors.
Therefore, age factors plays significant role in order to maintain better
organisational process.

Conclusion
• From the above evaluation, it can be stated that training is considered
to be an important aspect that can develop the performance of an
organisation. The empirical evidences shows that training programs
enhance the abilities of the employees and as a result of that it
develops a better environment for ding business effectively.
• From that point of view, it can be concluded that the ProServe
training programs are effective enough to reduce the illegal use of
alcohol among the teenagers and children.

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