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Employee Absenteeism
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the different factors affecting the employees
that leads to the promotion of employee absenteeism. For this purpose, an organization in New
Zealand known as Dad’s Pies was selected. The employees of this organization were surveyed
with the purpose of understanding what the reasons for their recurring absenteeism from the
organization were. In order to carry out the research, a mixture of qualitative and quantitative
analysis was carried out where the secondary sources were reviewed and analyzed in an
extensive manner. The various reasons for the absenteeism of employees such as their age, their
cultural outlook and the differences of such with the predominating culture of the individual, the
gender of the person and the different problems they face in a formal organization, were all
analyzed. While carrying out the research, the various ethical issues were taken in to
consideration such as transparency and confidentiality.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review Section...............................................................................................................4
Research Problem Section...............................................................................................................7
Organizational Background.........................................................................................................7
Research Problem........................................................................................................................7
Research Purpose.........................................................................................................................7
Research Questions......................................................................................................................7
Limitations of the Study..............................................................................................................8
Methodology Section.......................................................................................................................8
Methodology................................................................................................................................8
Research Design..........................................................................................................................9
Structure of Research Design..................................................................................................9
Primary Data..........................................................................................................................10
Secondary Data......................................................................................................................10
Sampling................................................................................................................................10
Development of Interview Schedule.....................................................................................11
Procedure...............................................................................................................................11
Validity..................................................................................................................................11
Data Analysis.........................................................................................................................11

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Ethics.............................................................................................................................................12
Significance of the Research.........................................................................................................13
Timeline.........................................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................15
Appendices....................................................................................................................................20

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Introduction
An organization can only function in an efficient manner when all of its constituent parts
function properly (Magee et al., 2017). One of the most important constituent unit of an
organization is that of the employees. It is only with the help of the employees that the
production level of the organization increases. The objective of the management level of any
private company is to increase the revenue earnings of that organization (Schaumberg & Flynn,
2017). This is only possible when the right consumers are attracted and that the services and the
products are provided to them in abundance.
Dad’s Pies is one such private organization that operates out of New Zealand. It is a very
popular restaurant that is known for the pies it provides ("Dad's Pies", 2019). Pies is one of the
most loved food of the people in Australia and in New Zealand, hence, the products of this
company are in high demand among the people living there. The quality of the food products,
especially the pies are unrivalled by any other nearby restaurant.
This research paper focuses on the issue of the absenteeism of the employees that can be
seen taking place at a considerable level within the organization known as Dad’s Pies. The main
objective of this study is to analyze the various factors that impact or influence the employees to
be absent from work, such as that of wage, gender and age factors (Nunes et al., 2017). The
motivation behind this study is to analyze these problems and to find a method by which all these
problems can be resolved by the administration of the organization.
The data will be collected with the help of semi structured interviews. In the data analysis
part, this primary data will be analyzed with the help of qualitative analysis. The paper will also
include a section on the various ethics which will be followed in order to ensure an efficient

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execution of the research.
Literature Review Section
Factors leading to absenteeism of employees
Employees are human beings. When leaves are less, employees tend to be absent at
workplace (Mudaly & Nkosi, 2015). However, there are cases when absence of some cases
where the employee have been absent for many respective days and the absence occur on a
regular basis. Thus, the absenteeism is noticed by the company. Furthermore thesis statement of
the following research proposal provides an insight behind the reasons and causes of this events
(Kocakulah et al., 2016). The literature sources provided in the section are secondary, that is,
they are articles and research proposals that have results from their researches.
The first literature source discusses about the effects that collective voice of absenteeism
exerts on the exit voice framework that makes the conceptual problem limited to at least two
(Rabarisone et al., 2017). Absenteeism cannot be easily classified as any form that either exit or
voice. Furthermore, the exit voice frame work has no effect in providing any adequate manner of
explanation on the conditions. The second literature source discusses about the bad effect of
organization on the health of the employees. It discusses about having a bad work environment
could effect in increase in absence of employees (Raub, 2017).
The most important factor that leads to employee’s absenteeism in the working place is the
Negative work environment. Magee (2017), stated that in most of the cases this is found out that
the companies often tries to save money by squeezing the employees pay, their benefits and
respect. Robinson (2017), suggested, that the negative work environment occurs in the
organization when the employee relations are becoming worse in the working place. The author