Impact Of Absenteeism Research Articles

IMPACT OF EMPLOYEES ABSENTEEISM ON PERFORMANCE IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF ONDO STATE. A POST COVID-19 STUDY

This study investigates the impact of employee absenteeism on performance within the local government areas of Ondo State, Nigeria. It ascertains the level of absenteeism, examines the influence of working conditions and irregular salary payments on performance, and identifies the primary causes of absenteeism among local government employees. Data were collected through structured questionnaires administered to 592 respondents across three randomly selected local government areas: Owo, Akure North, and Odigbo. We adopted descriptive statistics and regression techniques to examine the relationships between absenteeism, employee performance, working conditions, and salary payments. Findings indicate a significant level of absenteeism, with older employees and those in specific departments showing higher absenteeism rates. Regression analysis reveals that both working conditions and irregular salary payments significantly impact employee performance. Positive working environments are associated with higher performance levels, while irregular salary payments contribute to financial stress and reduced motivation, leading to decreased productivity. The study also identifies key factors contributing to absenteeism, including employee habits, personal and family emergencies, health issues, and work-life balance. In the post COVID-19 context, the impact of absenteeism has been further worsened. The pandemic has exacerbated health concerns, disrupted working conditions, and caused financial instability, all contributing to higher absenteeism rates. Therefore, local governments must consider these new challenges when designing and implementing interventions. Enhanced safety protocols, flexible work arrangements, comprehensive health and wellness programs, equal distribution of palliatives, reliable and timely salary payment and provision of targeted employee training system are crucial in the post-pandemic era to mitigate absenteeism and boost employee performance. Department-specific interventions and robust monitoring and evaluation systems are also essential to address the unique challenges different departments face. Addressing absenteeism through targeted interventions can significantly enhance local government employee attendance and performance in Ondo state.

Effect of Long-Term Absenteeism on the Operating Revenues, Productivity, and Employment of Enterprises

(1) Background: Previous studies have shown that absenteeism is negatively associated with employee-level performance, but we do not know how exactly absenteeism affects enterprise-level performance. To bridge this knowledge gap, we investigate how average long-term absenteeism affects Norwegian enterprises’ operating revenues and productivity. Also, we investigate if absenteeism decreases employment and whether operating revenues mediate the association. (2) Methods: We performed an enterprise-level dynamic unconditional quasi-maximum likelihood fixed-effects panel regression. (3) Results: The average share of long-term absenteeism nonlinearly decreases operating revenues and overall productivity at an increasing rate. The nonlinear effect may indicate deteriorating value creation among the share of employees largely not absent, but their productivity actually increases at an increasing rate. Thus, the overall findings indicate that the least productive employees first tend to opt out of the workforce, and as absenteeism increases, those subsequently opting out are otherwise increasingly productive. In parallel, those remaining in the workforce are increasingly productive. Absenteeism, moreover, decreases employment the following year, which is partly explained by revenue losses. However, enterprises cut their workforce due to factors beyond the impact of absenteeism on revenues.

Competence-based robust scheduling of cyclic workforce relocation

This article presents an analytical model of the performance of multi-skilled employees hired to perform variably repetitive tasks based on the assumption of aging competencies. The aim is to develop an analytical tool that considers the need to refresh the competencies of the team's multi-skilled members and shape the structure of staff's competencies to maximize their mutual substitutability in processes typical for multi-item lot-size production. Suppose incorporating competency-based modeling for employees' assignments and their scheduling results in a more accurate estimate of the actual and future performance of the workforce. The declarative model implementing this approach boils down to seeking an answer to the question of whether a given team of employees with known competencies and their renewal periods can undertake the execution of a given order without reducing their potential while guaranteeing resistance to selected types of employee absenteeism. The proposed approach enables better human resources management, reducing employee absenteeism's impact on the timely completion of orders and constantly maintaining the team's competencies. The presented case study from the automotive industry illustrates the scale of problems that can be solved in reasonable run times.

Atopic Dermatitis in Latin America: A Roadmap to Address Data Collection, Knowledge Gaps, and Challenges.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a systemic, multifactorial disease that causes significant morbidity and health care burden in Latin America (LA). Data on AD are scarce in LA. Lack of disease registries and non-standardized study methodologies, coupled with region-specific genetic, immunological, and environmental factors, hamper data collection. A panel of LA experts in AD was given a series of relevant questions to address before a conference. Each narrative was discussed and edited through numerous rounds of deliberation until achieving consensus. Identified knowledge gaps in AD research were updated prevalence, adult-disease epidemiology, local phenotypes and endotypes, severe-disease prevalence, specialist distribution, and AD public health policy. Underlying reasons for these gaps include limited funding for AD research, from epidemiology and public policy to clinical and translational studies. Regional heterogeneity requires that complex interactions between race, ethnicity, and environmental factors be further studied. Informed awareness, education, and decision making should be encouraged.

P.0012 The costs of alcohol hangover for the Dutch economy: impact of absenteeism and presenteeism

P.0012 The costs of alcohol hangover for the Dutch economy: impact of absenteeism and presenteeism

Impact of absenteeism on academic performance under compulsory attendance policies in first to fifth year university students

Since the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, universities have been obliged to implement continuous assessment systems that require a high degree of attendance by students. Using recorded data, from year 1 to year 5, of 694 students of a European university, where attendance is mandatory, the main objective of this research is to analyse to what extent absenteeism affects performance across the years of degree study. The investigation found a decreasing effect. In addition, a cluster analysis was done to find out if the compulsory attendance policy impacts all students equally. Three different behavioural styles were found: those who attend regularly, students who manage their number of absences to comply with attendance rules, who are the real targets the policy, and a third group with a high number of absences not affected by the policy. These findings identify the groups of students who benefit most from adequate attendance.

The impact of absenteeism and the relationship with emotional absence based on individual stories

The relationship between the concepts of stress, mental illness and burnout syndrome seems to be indistinguishable when it comes to work leave by individuals who present specific and common symptoms. Recent research has shown an increase in absenteeism as a pandemic in society, one of the main problems faced by organizations, the consequences of illness generated by lack of emotional health, and the emergence of such symptoms arising from these relationships. This study analyzes the discourse of individuals diagnosed with burnout syndrome, seeking to identify the multiple relationships between the underlying symptoms and emotional health problems, a new concept discussed by theorists in recent years. For research purposes, elements of qualitative methodology were used. The narratives were analyzed considering psychoanalysis, and supported by the social interpretation of the reports. The results showed a significant trend towards a relationship between the concepts, the subject studied and the stories told in the interviews, leading us to reflect on the emotional impact of these relationships on work environments, individuals and society.

Effect of absenteeism on the performance of medical sciences students: gender differences

ABSTRACT The effects of the learning environment on academic performance can be investigated according to a broad range of factors using a diversity of approaches. Many differences in academic performance have been associated with the sex of the student. Objectives: This study aims to understand the impact of absenteeism on the final grades earned by full-time medical laboratory sciences undergraduate students and whether this is affected by sex. Academic performance was analyzed using students’ final grades from two consecutive semesters (January to April and September to December 2019). The differences between male (n = 43) and female (n = 72) students were evaluated by Pearson’s correlation. During the semester, all teaching and assessment methods were standardized across both course sections to avoid confounding effects derived from the teaching method. Academic performance was assessed both objectively (multiple-choice questions) and subjectively (short essay questions). The mean scores of male and female students during two semesters were significantly different (p = 0.0180). To correlate marks with absenteeism, the correlation coefficient (r) was negative, which indicates an inverse correlation between absence rate and scores. Interestingly, a statistically significant correlation between absenteeism and final grades was found in the male sample population (p = 0.0011 for the first semester; p = 0.0255 for the second semester) that was not observed for their female counterparts (p = 0.2041; p = 0.1537). The results indicate that academic performance among women is not solely dependent on class attendance but likely involves other factors such as self-learning, and group discussion. The mean scores of female medical sciences students were significantly higher than the male students for two consecutive semesters. Male overall scores seem to be conditional on the instructor’s explanation. This sex-based variation in academic performance revealed by taking absenteeism rate into account warrant further investigation.

Factors affecting employee absenteeism in Nepalese commercial banks

The impact of absenteeism on firms or even a nation’s economy is enormous, taking account of the costs associated with it. The major objective of the study is to analyze the relationship between job satisfaction, health status, family responsibilities, working condition, employee relation, occupational stress, and transportation problem and employee absenteeism of Nepalese commercial banks and to make suggestions to minimize the level of absenteeism of employees. However the specific objectives of this study are to analyze the perception of employees towards the absenteeism in Nepalese commercial banks, to determine factor affecting employee absenteeism in Nepalese commercial banks, to identify the reasons for absenteeism among employees in Nepalese commercial banks, to examine the relationship between job satisfaction, health status, family responsibilities, working condition, employee relation, occupational stress, transportation problem employee absenteeism in Nepalese commercial banks, to investigate the impact of job satisfaction, health status, family responsibilities, working condition, employee relation, occupational stress, transportation problem on employee absenteeism, to analyze the most important variable affecting employee absenteeism. The study found that job satisfaction is inversely related to absenteeism. The absent from a work situation that is sampling errors, scale inadequacies and the use of different measurement instruments. The psychological model that discusses this is the withdrawal model, which assumes that absenteeism represents individual withdrawal from dissatisfying working conditions. The study support in a negative association between absence and job satisfaction, especially satisfaction with the work itself. Medical-based understanding of absenteeism find support in research that links absenteeism with smoking, problem drinking, low back pain, and migraines Absence ascribed to medical causes is often still, at least in part, voluntary.

The Unheared Voice of Truant Students: Implications for School Leaders

The objective of this study was to explore the possible factors, impacts and prevention mechanisms by school administrators of absenteeism among high school students in Yekatit 12 preparatory school of Addis Ababa City Administration. To achieve the objective of the study a qualitative approach was employed and data was collected from five students based on the number of days that they were absent from school. The main data collection methods employed were consultation of documents like the attendance sheet and records of the student on their absenteeism and in depth interview. Once the data was collected, it was transcribed and translated. Content analysis was used to find out the main themes emerging to answer the basic questions raised. Base on the analysis of the study, it was found out that substance abuse resulted from peer pressure; economic problems due to family separation and domestic chore burden were the main factors for students’ absenteeism. The impact of absenteeism was also found to be huge in decreasing academic performance and results of the students as they miss lectures, demonstrations and class activities which are going to be marked including tests and quizzes. Though teachers and school administrators support was mentioned, it was not found to be at the level which is required to fully understand and help them not to dropout from Scholl. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that the school has to put in place a strict control of drugs and alcohol inside the school premise, guidance and counseling service of the school to be strengthened and to try to engage NGOs and other partners to assist economically poor students.

Understanding healthcare provider absenteeism in Kenya: a qualitative analysis

BackgroundHealthcare worker absenteeism is common in resource limited settings and contributes to poor quality of care in maternal and child health service delivery. There is a dearth of qualitative information on the scope, contributing factors, and impact of absenteeism in Kenyan healthcare facilities.MethodsIn-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted between July 2015 and June 2016 with 20 healthcare providers in public and private healthcare facilities in Central and Western Kenya. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, coded, and analyzed using an iterative thematic approach.ResultsHalf of providers reported that absenteeism occurs in both private and public health facilities. Absenteeism was most commonly characterized by providers arriving late or leaving early during scheduled work hours. The practice was attributed to institutional issues including: infrequent supervision, lack of professional consequences, limited accountability, and low wages. In some cases, healthcare workers were frequently absent because they held multiple positions at different health facilities. Provider absences result in increased patient wait times and may deter patients from seeking healthcare in the future.ConclusionThere is a significant need for policies and programs to reduce provider absenteeism in Kenya. Intervention approaches must be cognizant of the contributors to absenteeism which occur at the institutional level.

The Assessment of Causes and Consequences of Medical Staff Absenteeism and Turnover in Arba Minch General Hospital

The purpose of this study is to assess the causes of medical staff absenteeism and turnover in case of Arbaminch General Hospital. In addition, it explores the consquences/ impact of absenteeism and trunover on patients care,workload on medical staff and reputation on Arbaminch General Hospital. To this end, the study employed a descriptive, correlation and regession analysis. Data was collected using closed ended structured questionnaires by applying Likert scale which were filled by full time medical staff (N= 50). The findings indicate that demographic factors such as marital status, working experiences, educational level and have significant negative correlation with absenteeism and turnover. Organizational factors such as working condition and work load have positive significant correlation with medical staff absenteeism and turnover. In contrast, all studied organizational factors such as compensation/ incentive program, promotional opportunities, managerial style, training and development and career development are significantly negatively correlated with both absenteeism and turnover. The findings also indicated that medical staff absenteeism and turnover had consequences on patient care, increasing workload on existing staff, and bad reputation for hospital. Furthermore, both absenteeism and turnover have resulted in demoralization of existing medical staff at Arbaminch General Hospital. Keywords: Demographic Variables, Job Factors, Organizational Factors, Patient Care, Demoralization, Absenteeism, Turnover DOI : 10.7176/JHMN/58-04

An Investigation into the Impact of Absenteeism on the Organisational Performance of a Private Security Company in Durban , Kwazulu-Natal

An Investigation into the Impact of Absenteeism on the Organisational Performance of a Private Security Company in Durban , Kwazulu-Natal

Compensation Management and Motivation: Cooking utensils for Organisational Performance

The achievement of organisational performance is essential for sustainability and continuous existence of the organisation. Obviously, this is a function of employees that are well remunerated and motivated, thus, it is contingent that compensation management and employees motivation should be aligned with the vision, mission and objectives of the organisation. In doing this, the attainment of organisational performance becomes an easy task and it will also reduce the antecedent negative impact of absenteeism, labour turnover, industrial unrest and non-commitment attitude of the employees. Efficient and adequate compensation management and employees motivation will improve organisational productivity and image of the organisation. In order to attract, hire and retain skilful employees that will ensure the achievement of organisational performance, it is therefore; recommended that there should be a periodical review of compensation package. It is against the backdrop of the import of compensation and motivation as cooking utensils for organisational performance that this addressed. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n27p88

A Profile of Unintentional Injuries Among Iranian Adolescents: Findings From the First Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Survey

Objectives: This paper presents a perspective of injuries and consequent school absenteeism in Pakdasht District, Tehran Province, Iran. Patients and Methods: We recruited 2073 students from primary, middle and high schools using two-stage cluster sampling to participate in this cross-sectional study. The tool used was a self-administered questionnaire adopted from the Health Behavior in SchoolAged Children Survey model. Results: A total of 44.2% of students reported at least one injury during the 12- month period prior to the study with a predominance of male gender (P < 0.01). The positive history of trauma showed a reverse correlation with the age of the participants. Participants' residences were the location for the majority (38.5%) of injury cases; girls were more likely to be prone to home injuries, whereas school accidents were reported more frequently by male participants than females (P < 0.001). About 50.4% of those who reported an injury incident had a history of consequent school absence. Conclusions: Male students are more prone to injuries than their female peers. Trauma is a rather common incident in schoolchildren of Pakdasht. About half of the injury cases resulted in school absenteeism. Establishing injury surveillance and implementing prevention programs, including effective health education, is crucial for student’s well-being and reduction of the negative impact of absenteeism on student’s educational achievements.

Absenteeism and Exam Performance: Evidence for Introductory Microeconomics

The effect of absenteeism on students’ exam performance during an introductory microeconomics course was examined. The focus was on the impact of absenteeism in the prior exam period on current exam performance. Results showed a negative and significant correlation – one additional class missed was found to lower test scores by approximately 2-3 points and reduce exam performance by approximately 3-6%. One additional class missed in the first and second exam periods was found to lower final exam scores by approximately 4 and 2 points, and reduce final exam performance by approximately 6.5% and 3.4%, respectively. Moreover, the cumulative absenteeism effect was found to be significant on final comprehensive exam performance while not significant on second midterm exam performance. In addition, the post-exam effect was tested and found not to be significant. An implied issue was discussed – attendance be compulsory? Findings suggest that an incentive-stimulating attendance strategy may be considered as a substitute for a mandatory attendance policy.

Impact of Absenteeism on Assembly Line Quality and Throughput

Assembly lines function best when every worker is present. When a worker is absent, management must scramble to quickly find a replacement. Usually, the replacement will not be as proficient as the absent worker. This can reduce quality and throughput. We present two assembly line work‐systems models (one for lines with Andon and one for lines without Andon) that show one mechanism whereby absenteeism could impact quality and throughput. We exercise these models to provide insights into absenteeism's impact on quality and throughput. While the paper is written in the concrete terms of automotive assembly, the concepts and results apply to manual assembly lines in general.

The impact of absenteeism on the quality of assembly line production: The importance of a specialization requirement

AbstractAbsenteeism among manual workers is without doubt one of the most significant factors that affect the functioning of assembly lines. It is a widely held view that high levels of absenteeism have negative repercussions on the quality and costs of operations. According to the scientific theory of work, workers who temporarily stand in for their absent colleagues affect production quality levels because of a lack of work specialization and experience. However, new and sophisticated automation can eliminate the effect of absenteeism on assembly line production. This article gathered more than 960,000 products produced by different levels of absenteeism. The effects of absenteeism on the quality of products in assembly lines over the course of one year were analyzed. In contrast to established thinking, the empirical evidence presented here confirms that absenteeism does not always produce problems in the quality of products. This evidence can be explained by the need for specialization among manual workers has been reduced by the invention of more sophisticated and specialized machinery. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

The relationship between absenteeism and production efficiency: An empirical assessment

Despite almost universal agreement that employee absenteeism leads to decreased production efficiency, there is little documentation of a relationship between these variables. Several authors have even suggested that absenteeism might have some beneficial effects. The present study finds that absenteeism and department efficiency are negatively associated only (1) when production processes are not highly automated, and (2) when the absences cannot be anticipated in advance. Despite these limitations, however, the costs attributable to the impact of absenteeism on department efficiency are substantial. Programmes designed to decrease unanticipated absenteeism, therefore, can result in considerable savings by increasing operating efficiency where employees are directly involved in the production process.