Absenteeism - a Social Fact in Need of a Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2301587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dagfinn As (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 278-286 |
| Publication date | 1962-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Sociologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000169936200600115 |
| OpenAlex | W2066299165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
In sociological and social psychological studies of work behavior, measures of absenteeism have often been used in the analysis. Most often the measures have been looked upon as dependant variables; indicators of the effectiveness of the organization or also indicators of satisfaction and adjustment of the employees. Some studies have had as their explicit goal to find correlates of absenteeism and spell out the causal relationships; thereby making it possible to improve the situation, that is, to reduce the degree of absenteeism.1) We would like to state here at the outset that absenteeism is not necessarily an unquestionable evil. For the absentee personally it might often be psychologically important to take the day off, and in many cases will a certain degree of absenteeism fit the particular organization and even have specific positive functions. In studying the various reports from studies of absenteeism, however, one is struck by two phenomena: first the multitude of factors that seem to be related to absenteeism 2), and secondly the number of contradictions that appear when a comparison of the findings are performed. In order to cut through this chaos and construct a model for research on absenteeism there is first a need for grouping of the factors and weeding out the irrelevant ones in order to be able to handle a particular study. Secondly we need more work on finding and defining broad conditional or situational variables that might explain the contradictions between the findings
Absenteeism · Construct (python library · Economics · Multitude · Order (exchange · Political science · Positive economics · Situational ethics · Sociology · Spell · Work (physics · Computer Science · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2004 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |