Reducing Absenteeism through Employee Engagement Programmes

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Absenteeism mainly comprises of the time that is taken off by an employee from work
due to illness or any other reasons for staying away from work (Sajayan and et. al., 2021). Thus,
absenteeism is one of the main reason and cause for reduction in the performance and
productivity level of a company as it leads to unproductive workforce and teams and also creates
unnecessary delays and mismanagement at the workplace. Therefore, many companies of the
world have started to have more focus and emphasis on the employee engagement programmes
that helps in reducing the issue of absenteeism.
Main Body
Employee engagement programmes basically comprises of the strategy and initiatives that
are taken by the company to make their employees feel for passionate and committed with their
work. Thus, employee engagement is something that drives higher performance and present
about the extent to which the emolyess of a firm feel passionate and motivated towards there
work. High employee absenteeism has become a major cause of decline in the productivity and
performance level of a firm as it leads to habitual absence of employee from work that can be
due to family issue, illness and job dissatisfaction (Ackers and Adebayo, 2021). Therefore, the
companies like Tesco, Microsoft, Marks and Spencer, Aston martin and many more have started
to focus on employee engagement program to ensure higher retention of talented worker along
with reducing their absenteeism level.
Tesco believes in offering a comfortable workplace environment along with fairly
compensated salary and other incentives for its employees as a part of its employee engagement
programme. It has been analysed that the comfortable and positive workplace environment
creates a positive physiological impact on the mind and body of the employees that motivates
them to remain present at their job role and reduce the chances of the absenteeism. Further,
regular performance based monetary rewards provided by the Tesco also meets the financial
needs of the employees and make them more motivated and commuted towards their work to
fulfil their monetary desires (Katsoni and Poulaki, 2021). Thus, performance based incentives as
employee engagement program is also vital and effective in reducing and meeting the issue of
absenteeism.
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