Employment and Absenteeism Data
Case Study on Absenteeism
Submitted To: Mr. Srinivas Rao Associate Professor – Fashion Management Studies. NIFT, Hyderabad. Submitted By: Mr. Sebastian James 1st Semester Student – Fashion Management Studies (2011-2013). NIFT, Hyderabad.
SUMMARY OF THE CASE STUDY
Unique Schweppes Ltd was multinational Public Limited Company with its head office in London. The company’s 51% shares were held by Unique and 49% by Government financial institution and shareholders. They had 6 primary manufacturing units located at Jammu, Nagpur, Agra, Pune, Gorakhpur and Hyderabad. The total manpower resource in these six units was 1900.
Agra unit was registered in the name of Association Of Chemical Workers in the company. The unit was working in 3 shifts and for all seven days. Emphasis on financial relations among the employee to promote simplified working and better understanding. Unique gave all the welfare facilities to their employees like free canteen, free transportation, free uniform, medical re-imbursement, housing loan and all other benefits.
In 1995,HR executive, received a complaint that production was suffering due to absenteeism in spite of that there were 52 weekly off,9casual and 22 earned leaves but still absenteeism rate was 18%.`
The management decided decided to put efforts to reduce absenteeism by providing financial incentives to the employees to motivate them to work regularly. Similarly some workers who had not shown any improvement in their attendance then charge sheet would be issued. Ultimately management found some reasons which led to absenteeism were high salary, festive celebration, dual employment etc and all these led to another way of encouraging employees to reduce absenteeism by social recognition, tea party attendance
Submitted To: Mr. Srinivas Rao Associate Professor – Fashion Management Studies. NIFT, Hyderabad. Submitted By: Mr. Sebastian James 1st Semester Student – Fashion Management Studies (2011-2013). NIFT, Hyderabad.
SUMMARY OF THE CASE STUDY
Unique Schweppes Ltd was multinational Public Limited Company with its head office in London. The company’s 51% shares were held by Unique and 49% by Government financial institution and shareholders. They had 6 primary manufacturing units located at Jammu, Nagpur, Agra, Pune, Gorakhpur and Hyderabad. The total manpower resource in these six units was 1900.
Agra unit was registered in the name of Association Of Chemical Workers in the company. The unit was working in 3 shifts and for all seven days. Emphasis on financial relations among the employee to promote simplified working and better understanding. Unique gave all the welfare facilities to their employees like free canteen, free transportation, free uniform, medical re-imbursement, housing loan and all other benefits.
In 1995,HR executive, received a complaint that production was suffering due to absenteeism in spite of that there were 52 weekly off,9casual and 22 earned leaves but still absenteeism rate was 18%.`
The management decided decided to put efforts to reduce absenteeism by providing financial incentives to the employees to motivate them to work regularly. Similarly some workers who had not shown any improvement in their attendance then charge sheet would be issued. Ultimately management found some reasons which led to absenteeism were high salary, festive celebration, dual employment etc and all these led to another way of encouraging employees to reduce absenteeism by social recognition, tea party attendance