...Carol-Anne Gauthier; Annick Parent-Lamarche; Yves Hallée Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between feminized skills, job recognition, psychological distress and absenteeism. It also aimed to assess whether job recognition mediates the relationship between feminized...

...Jasmin Afrahi Purpose Companies are increasingly struggling with the costs of absenteeism due to their employees’ physical and increasing psychological illnesses. At the same time, employers should recognize the value of healthy employees in terms of greater productivity and the development...

... burden on a workplace due to chronic migraine compared to episodic migraine by focusing on the indirect costs of absenteeism and presenteeism and addressing the research gaps in this field. Design/methodology/approach According to the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews, a comprehensive electronic...

...Babette Bronkhorst; Brenda Vermeeren Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between organizational safety climate and organizational health performance outcomes (i.e. absenteeism, presenteeism, health care utilization) mediated by individual worker health. The authors...

...Georgios Merekoulias; Evangelos C Alexopoulos Purpose – Bradford formula (index) or factor (BF) was originally designed for use as part of the overall investigation and management of absenteeism. Work ability index (WAI) is an instrument that has been used to evaluate work ability. The purpose...

... Absenteeism Wellness interventions The mean age was 42 years (SD=9.7) in the intervention group and 44 years (SD=12.9) among referents. Most women had a partner (I: 62 percent; R: 66 percent) and children (I: 69 percent; R: 66 percent). The mean number of weekly work hours was close to full time (37...

...Mary L Marzec; Andrew Scibelli; Dee Edington Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of changes of medical condition burden index (MCBI) and stress on absenteeism and discuss implications for policy/program design. Design/methodology/approach – Sample: US utility...

... sickness absence and their impact on absence, is very scarce. There is a study (Aronsson and Gustafsson, 2005) showing that replaceability of the employees is associated to sickness presenteeism. Corresponding phenomenon could be expected with respect to sickness absenteeism as well. However, Böckerman...

...Fiona Cocker; Angela Martin; Kristy Sanderson Purpose The economic impact of ill‐health in employed individuals is largely experienced via absenteeism‐related and presenteeism‐related productivity loss. Using cognitive interviewing, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate a recently published...

... costs as well as productivity losses in the form of absenteeism, short‐term disability absences and reduced on‐the‐job productivity‐known as presenteeism. The purpose of this paper is to review the association of worker productivity and mental health. Design/methodology/approach This review...