Absenteeism is a major challenge for many organizations today. Reducing absenteeism helps organizations achieve their goals and increases their productivity. To shed light on this issue, this study investigates the main ...

This publication is the summary report from the project ‘Ill-health and workplace absenteeism: initiatives for prevention’ of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin. The ...

An employee who is away from work due to illness often causes the employer some degree of frustration, as unexpected absences, whatever the reason, can be detrimental to productivity and efficient operation of the ...

This paper intends to establish a foundation that will permit an in-depth understanding of absenteeism in large scale industrial construction. This type of construction currently suffers greatly from the negative impacts ...

Do workplace programs help reduce worker sickness absence? Many programs are based on the principle that the employee’s decision to report an absence can be influenced if it is costly to be absent. Firms can reduce ...

: Employees are not present in work and so the work suffers. The researcher focuses to sort the motives for employee’s absenteeism in an organization. It is the key problem faced by more or less all the employers ...

Employee absences are both costly and disruptive for business, and the trend has been increasing steadily over the years. Personal illness and family issues are cited as the primary reason for unplanned absences. Employers ...

We use detailed information on individual absent spells of all employees in 2,600 firms in Denmark to document large differences across firms in average absenteeism. Using employees who switch firms, we decompose absent ...

The paper is intended to determine the working philosophy, welfare facilities, impact on organization’s efficiency, mutual obligations and involvement of employer and employee and performance appraisal effects. The paper ...

Absenteeism is one of major human problem of Indian textiles industries. Absenteeism is the term generally used to refer to unscheduled employee absences from the workplace. It is a habitual pattern of absence from a ...