Abstract:
: 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 nowadays. Absenteeism of
employees from job results in backlogs, pile of labour and
therefore work delays. The objective of the paper is to identify the
predominant factor influencing employee absenteeism and to
measure the impact of factors influencing employee absenteeism
on employee productivity. Descriptive research design is used for
this reseacrh. Data was collected from 150 employees using
Convenience sampling technique from the employees of IT
companies at Trichy. The data were analyzed using descriptive
statistics to identify the predominant factor influencing employee
absenteeism and multiple regression to measure the impact of
factors influencing employee absenteeism on employee
productivity. From the analysis, it was found that stress at the
workplace is the predominant factor highly influencing employee
absenteeism. It was also found that improper time management is
highly influencing employee absenteeism factor on employee
productivit
