Absenteeism in the Indian Industries: Effects and Corrective Measures

Abstract

Employee absenteeism is a worldwide phenomenon which, due to the financial impact on a nation’s economy, is an important subject on the international agenda. In order to provide new insights into employee absenteeism a model with a broad variety of determinants is constructed and tested for Europe as a whole and the individual countries. Based on previous studies, a wide selection of determinants was distinguished and divided into categories such as demographics, health, household and job characteristics Absenteeism is the term generally used to refer to unscheduled employee absences from the workplace. Many causes of absenteeism are legitimate, for example personal illness or family issues, but absenteeism also can often be traced to other factors such as a poor work environment or workers who are not committed to their jobs. If such absences become excessive, they can have a seriously adverse impact on a business’s operations and, ultimately, its profitability. The Labour Department in India defined the absenteeism rate as the total man-shifts lost because of absences as a percentage of the total number of man-shifts scheduled. So for calculation of the rate of the absenteeism we require the number of persons scheduled to work and the number actually present.