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ABSTRACT
The literature review is about “Workplace Absenteeism.” The employee absenteeism is becoming one of the major problems in corporate work culture. Absenteeism is acceptable up to certain level but there are employees hired for full time or partial are absent from work which results to reduce in productivity, efficiency and employee morale. Both the government and private firms are facing the problem employee absence from work. The reasons of absenteeism are categorize into two categories as employee related and job related. The main of purpose of this paper is to increase the understandings absenteeism and its effect on the workplace. Absence occurs for legitimate reasons such as stress, serious illness and family emergencies but it also occur due to minor aches, pains, hangover and sleepless night. The growing and expensive concern for most of the organization is absence from sickness. It affects the firms operating costs, manufacturing processes, business deadlines and efficiency. The problem of employee absenteeism is best resolved by taking positive interventions such as change management style, job burnout and employee health problems; changing working conditions refer to co-worker relationships stress, provide incentives where companies provide several incentive programs for employees to reduce sickness absence and attendance policy explains a company should maintains attendance policy which helps in identifying the employee who absent frequently. By implementing and focusing on the stated approach will minimize the employee absenteeism, reduces the cost related to absent employee, better performance and improves high morale.
SIX KEY TERMS
Absenteeism, Stress, Sickness, Costs, Morale, Employee Absence
INTRODUCTION
The study is referred to absenteeism at workplace caused due to a number of reasons. It focuses on how organizations treating their valuable assets i.e. employees. Employees taking off from work due to personal issues, family
The literature review is about “Workplace Absenteeism.” The employee absenteeism is becoming one of the major problems in corporate work culture. Absenteeism is acceptable up to certain level but there are employees hired for full time or partial are absent from work which results to reduce in productivity, efficiency and employee morale. Both the government and private firms are facing the problem employee absence from work. The reasons of absenteeism are categorize into two categories as employee related and job related. The main of purpose of this paper is to increase the understandings absenteeism and its effect on the workplace. Absence occurs for legitimate reasons such as stress, serious illness and family emergencies but it also occur due to minor aches, pains, hangover and sleepless night. The growing and expensive concern for most of the organization is absence from sickness. It affects the firms operating costs, manufacturing processes, business deadlines and efficiency. The problem of employee absenteeism is best resolved by taking positive interventions such as change management style, job burnout and employee health problems; changing working conditions refer to co-worker relationships stress, provide incentives where companies provide several incentive programs for employees to reduce sickness absence and attendance policy explains a company should maintains attendance policy which helps in identifying the employee who absent frequently. By implementing and focusing on the stated approach will minimize the employee absenteeism, reduces the cost related to absent employee, better performance and improves high morale.
SIX KEY TERMS
Absenteeism, Stress, Sickness, Costs, Morale, Employee Absence
INTRODUCTION
The study is referred to absenteeism at workplace caused due to a number of reasons. It focuses on how organizations treating their valuable assets i.e. employees. Employees taking off from work due to personal issues, family
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