WAYS TO REDUCE EMPLOYEE ABSENTEEISM

Absents constitutes a single day of missed work(Martocchio & Jimeno 2003)

Absence occurs whenever a person chooses to allocate time to activities that compete with scheduled work either to satisfy the waxing and warning of underlying motivational rhythms(Fichman 1984) or to maximise personal utility(Chelius 1981)

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To find out the various cause for absenteeism 2. To study the various measures adopted by the organization 3. To provide suggestions in the form of solutions to reduce the rate of absenteeism

TWO TYPES OF ABSENTEEISM y1. Innocent absenteeism

y2. Culpable Absenteeism

1. Innocent absenteeism - Is one in which the employee is absent from work due to genuine cause or reason. It may be due to his illness or personal family problem or any other real reason 2. Culpable Absenteeism - is one in which a person is absent from work without any genuine reason or cause. He may be pretending to be ill or just wanted a holiday and stay at home.

Need of the study

yTo increase the production. yTo identify the factors that

causes absenteeism

Scope of the study The study focuses on identifying the causes of absenteeism. The scope of the study has been extended to all the departments in this organization The survey of nature depends on employees for their views. To obtain the opinion of the employees, identifying the limitations and suggesting various possible measures to control absenteeism in the organization to the extent possible.

Limitations of the study 1.Due to the time constraint the study is made only among 50 respondents 2.There is a chance of personal bias which affects the original data.

Ways To Reduce Employee Absenteeism With Special Reference To United Electrical Industries Ltd, Kollam

Problems
On analysing the response it is found that, 35% of the employees are dissatisfied with their work. 50% of the employees have an opinion that stress is part of their work life.

43% agree and 27% strongly agree that their work is heavy. From this, it can be interpreted that the employees are having a hectic work schedule. A total of 70% of the employees feel lonely while working with others. 39% of workers feel bored in their routine work. 42% don t have time for their personal activities. 40% of the workers are not satisfied with the welfare measures adopted by the Company.

Health problems seem to be one of the causes of absenteeism for the work. It is also found that 35% of the employees are satisfied with working condition. It has been found that 40% of the respondents have an opinion that politics have no impact on the employee absenteeism. 60% of the employees feel that their colleagues did not help them in case of personal problems.

Suggestions 1. The management must intervene in the day to day activities of the employees. They should provide fullfledged support, guidance and encouragement. 2. The management must provide training programme to the employees at a frequent basis. This will help them to enhance their skill and improve their existing performance. The management must further, scrutinize the response of the employees after the implementation of the training programme. 3. Overloaded workaholic atmosphere must be avoided, as it may create a lot of stressrelated problems.

4. Employees must be encouraged for their creativity and innovative outlook towards their job assigned. 5 Welfare measures of the employees should be improved so as to make the employees feel more satisfied and contended. A satisfied employee will be more committed to the organization. 6 Medi-claim policies, weekly or monthly medical checkups etc should be provided to the employees in order to make them physically fit for the job.

7 The employees should either be provided with transportation facility or housing facility so that they would have ample time for recreation in substitute for the time they spend in traveling. 8 The management should take necessary action to strengthen the relationship between the employees.

CONCLUSION The study tries to reveal the factors influencing the absenteeism of employees with some suggestions which will be of immense aid for the employees as well as practically. To conclude, employees dissatisfaction towards job & welfare measures, hectic work schedule, stress, health problems are some of the major causes of absenteeism. This can be reduced by the management by implementing various employee satisfactory changes in the organization. People are the major assets of any organization and taking care of their welfare and satisfaction is their duty as a whole apart from earning profit. As work environment is becoming more challenging and complex, the management must also see through it that, it is capable of managing and bringing in changes at the same pace so as to survive in this competitive scenario.

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