Introduction
The below information contains the factors that influences absenteeism in the workplace that we are dealing with in this practical. The regression standard format that we will also provide with these factors helps us to understand technically these factors and to make a clear meaning of these factors economically. The randomly selected sample of 100 (one hundred) companies are going to help us to save time and money to actually use it as an estimate for the entire companies (population). This is the estimate of a regression model to examine the factors that influence employee absenteeism. The data was collected from 100 randomly selected companies. The key definitions are as follows.
Y = Average number of days absent per
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The higher the absenteeism for whatever reason, the lower the output and the lower the profit. This could be even dangerous to employees as well because when the profit is contracting they might be retrenched from work. Descriptive Statistics Analysis
The separate XY scatterplots, in the Appendix, show that the relationship between Y and all the X 's is consistent with economic theory although all the relationships appear to have very weak linear relationships. The average employee wage (X2) as well as the percentage of part time employees in a company (X3) shows weak negative non- linear relationship, and the percentage of unionized employees in a company (X4) shows a weak positive linear relationship. As the average employee wages (X2) increase the incentive to work harder decreases. Employees earning lower wages tend to take fewer absent days and work harder than those earning higher wages. As the percentage of part time employees (X3) increase in can be seen, in the scatterplot, that the average number of days absent per employee (Y) decreases. Part time workers have more of an incentive to work harder than full time employees, therefore it is expected that average number of days absent per employee (Y) should decrease as the percentage of part time employees increases. As the percentage of unionized employees in a company (X4) increases it can be seen, from the scatterplot, which the
This affects not just the employee but also the employer. The employee, knowing about this, discourages the staff. This causes poor morale in the workplace and sometimes even employee backlash. These things also create a bad situation for the employer.
The company should probably use direct labor-hours as the activity base, since the fit of the regression line to the data is much tighter than it is with tons mined. The R2 for the regression using direct labor-hours as the activity base is twice as large as for the regression using tons mined as the activity base. However, managers should look more closely at the costs and try to determine why utilities costs are more closely tied to direct labor-hours than to the number of tons mined.
As a manager in a Contact Centre, unplanned absence causes issues. I have collected the absence data across the four departments within the Contact Centre for the same time period in 2011 and 2012. (January – September)
ONO is a large auto-supply company that does a large volume of business with only eleven employees. Absenteeism seems to have increased over the last two years and has had a significant effect on ONO. The information in the text shows that ONO had lost 539 employee labor-hours or 67.375 days to employee absenteeism last year. Because there are only eleven employees, this equals out to 6.125 missed days per employee. This is actually less than the United States average of seven missed days per year. Is absenteeism at ONO a serious problem? Whether or not a serious problem, the data from ONO, Inc. suggests there is enough to warrant an investigation and a new strategy to minimize absenteeism. As
272). Absenteeism is a common problem in the workplace today, and it is a widespread concern in many organizations. Employees call out sick for a variety of reasons, but if it occurs frequently enough it becomes an obvious issue. Some staff members make absenteeism a habit, meaning they call out more than their peers. At this point, absenteeism results in disruptive work processes for other staff members and becomes financially draining to the employer (Sullivan & Decker,
The vast majorities of organisations have a written absence/attendance management policy, record their employee absence rate collect information on the causes of absence and provide one or more well-being benefits. Developing line managers’ capability to manage absence (2014: 56% of those that made changes; 2013: 33%)
Low morale among employees in any company eventually leads to decreased profits with other factors of the business decreasing along the way. “And US Airways employees, who have seen their pay cut by more than 20 percent and their health insurance and pension plans shrink, are certainly an unhappy lot” (Claudia H. Deutsch). In order to increase profits, the airline has decreased pay and took away some of the earned vacation. “Company executives say they are taking steps that will improve working conditions and profitability” (Claudia H. Deutsch). Many employees were calling in sick which the company believed would eventually lead to poor customer service.
Job dissatisfaction also correlates with extended out of work stays by workers injured while working. Some employers may take also advantage of continued absence to fire sub-par employees.
The human resource department at Lightening University found that the leading cause of employee absences was related to unreliable childcare. Given the rural location, and the recent opening
The companies may rise thier epectation form the workers instead of hireing more workers. For example, some amount of work could be expected form works by adminustrators that a five day worker are doing. Furthermore, this make situation worse and make the jobs unpleasent for workers. In addition, this do not help to hiering more emploees.
As companies and managers around the world continue to tackle this ever growing issue many western companies have begun to implement strategies to combat the symptoms of lost productivity caused by absenteeism, however, even within western cultures, these tactics don’t work as planned. Many factors play a role; however, some companies are gaining success from various tactics used to combat absenteeism and tardiness. In a world full of different motivations and cultural differences, it can be difficult for companies to have a full success; however, with careful planning and cultural understanding companies can begin to battle against this costly crisis in the workplace.
reduced absenteeism. Absenteeism is a result of employee boredom with their job as they don’t feel personally connected to the company. Empowered employee feels valued and challenged which results in job satisfaction consequently absenteeism decreases.
The risk is new employees would be higher than normal ones. In addition, it may give the leader a chance to add the employees who do not actually on work in order to cheat the money from company.
Employers today come up against many obstacles regarding employee productivity. Some of those concerns include health related absenteeism and presenteeism.. Matke and others observed there is a shift in burden to employers due to Americas aging workforce that results in loss of productivity brought on by illness related absenteeism and presenteeism (Matke and others, 2013). A report by Berry, Mirabito, and Baun show that absenteeism and presenteeism account for lost productivity costs that are
Head administrators or lead managers will be notified with a study’s proposal package, which includes the study’s purpose, procedures, and benefit factors along with a consent form attached to obtain permission to proceed with the study. A second consent form will be mailed out to participants that were randomly selected then will be asked to return the form 48-hours of receipt to the return addressee. Web-based survey questionnaires generated through survey monkey will be administered to the participants with options of completing the survey at their workstations or at home. In addition, no personally identifying information (PPI) will be collected. Participants will complete the online survey questionnaire generated by using survey monkey, which will include closed ended questions on absenteeism, task performance, productivity, commitment, workloads, WLOC, and work environment, post furlough. Survey questionnaires will be customized to target the individual- and organizational-levels perception on the negative impact of furlough within their organization. Some limitations on the survey questionnaires include: privacy, flexibility, no open-ended questions, time constraint, and quick turnaround. No interviews will be conducted in this non-experimental quantitative study. The participants’ responses to the questionnaires could address how negatively furlough impacts their organizations, so that future planning for and implementation for furlough guidance and