Employee Absenteeism and its Impact in Absence Management Mostly in Health Cares

Running Head: EMPLOYEE ABSENTEEISM AND ITS IMPACT IN ABSENCE
MANAGEMENT MOSTLY IN HEALTH CARES
Employee Absenteeism and its Impact in Absence Management Mostly in Health Cares
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EMPLOYEE ABSENTEEISM AND ITS IMPACT IN ABSENCE MANAGEMENT
MOSTLY IN HEALTH CARES
Executive Summary
This study is mainly aimed to assess the factors that are responsible for the absenteeism of the
employees in the health care sector and the steps that the managers can implement in order to
overcome this problem. To perform this analysis, data has been collected on the usual and the
actual data of number of people absent over different years from 2001 to 2017. Several statistical
analysis has been performed to compare the presence or absence of the employees and the results
has been discussed accordingly.

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MOSTLY IN HEALTH CARES
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Background of the Study.......................................................................................................4
1.2 Problem Statement.................................................................................................................4
1.3 Research Aims and Objectives..............................................................................................4
1.4 Research Questions................................................................................................................5
2.0 Literature Review......................................................................................................................5
3.0 Research Methodology..............................................................................................................8
3.1 Method of Collection of Data................................................................................................8
3.2 Data Analysis.........................................................................................................................8
4.0 Analysis, Results and Discussions.............................................................................................9
4.1 Descriptive Statistics.............................................................................................................9
4.2 Trend Analysis.....................................................................................................................10
4.3 Correlation analysis.............................................................................................................12
4.4 Regression Analysis.............................................................................................................13
4.3 Statistical test.......................................................................................................................13
5.0 Discussion................................................................................................................................15
5.1 Trend in absenteeism overtime............................................................................................15
5.2 Variability of absenteeism...................................................................................................16

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MOSTLY IN HEALTH CARES
5.2.1 H01: There is no significant difference between the actual and total absenteeism of
total employees......................................................................................................................16
5.2.2 H02: There is no significant difference between the actual and total absenteeism of
male employees.....................................................................................................................16
5.2.3 HA3: There are significant differences between the actual and total absenteeism of
female employees..................................................................................................................16
5.2.4 H04: There is no significant difference between the actual absenteeism of males and
females...................................................................................................................................17
5.3 Causes behind absenteeism..................................................................................................17
6.0 Conclusion, Limitations and Recommendations.....................................................................17
6.1 Conclusions..........................................................................................................................17
6.1.1 Addressing Aims and Research Questions...................................................................17
6.2 Limitations of the Study......................................................................................................18
6.3 Recommendations................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................19
References......................................................................................................................................24

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MOSTLY IN HEALTH CARES
1.0 Introduction
There are a lot of emerging industries nowadays. The growth of all these different types
of industries depends on a lot of different factors. One of the most important factors for the
growth of a firm is employee absenteeism (Ward, 2016). The rise in employee absenteeism is
supposed to have a negative impact on the business performance and the performance will fall
(Folland, Goodman & Stano, 2016).
1.1 Background of the Study
When a person is not present at a desired location in a proposed time, it is known as
absenteeism. Considering this concept in the health care, absenteeism refers to the absence of
medical staffs, especially nurses (Borkowski, 2015). Nurses help in taking care of the services
received by the patients. In the absence of the nurses, these services will be hampered. Sufficient
number of nurses and doctors must be present in the health care centres or hospitals to take care
of the patients that come for treatments (Winwood, Stevens & Bowden, 2015).
1.2 Problem Statement
Thus, it has already been identified that the problem of absenteeism is one of the major
issues in the health care sector as the providing proper treatment to the patients is the most
important factor. Thus the presence of ample number of doctors and nurses is very crucial in this
sector as it deals with the health of people. Hence, evaluation of this issue is extremely
important. Thus, in this research paper, the reasons behind this problem will be evaluated and
discussed.

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1.3 Research Aims and Objectives
The paper aims at finding reasons behind the employee absenteeism based on which the
managers can adopt respective measures to overcome this problem. The objectives of the
research can be given as follows:
 To compare the trend in absenteeism over time.
 To find the existence of variability in absenteeism within gender.
 To evaluate the causes behind absenteeism.
1.4 Research Questions
The following research questions can be developed in order to achieve the aims of this
particular research:
 Is there any relationship between the observed data on absenteeism and the predicted data
on absenteeism?
 Is there any difference between the male and female proportion of absenteeism?
 What are the reasons behind absenteeism?
2.0 Literature Review
Realizing the importance of absenteeism in management practice several scholarly
studies have already conducted. Scholarly research made by Durand et al., 2014 has considered
absenteeism as an involuntary mechanism. Employees do not have controls over these most of
factors resulting in absenteeism among the employees (Dai et al., 2015). Voluntary absenteeism
occurs employees decides not to go office on their own. However, there may be situations where
workers though willing to attend office but are unable go because of some unprecedented events
(Shanks, 2016). From the organizations’ end, it is not possible to distinguish between voluntary