OBJECTIVE To examine the construct validity of the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ). METHODS A total of 1424 Dutch workers from three occupational sectors (blue, pink, and white collar) participated in the study. First, IWPQ scores were correlated with related constructs (convergent validity). Second, differences between known groups were tested (discriminative validity). RE...

AIM The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between sickness presence and stressful life events among health care workers. METHODS Data were gathered from all health care workers at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana employed there in the period between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010. Each employee obtained a questionnaire composed of two standardized international q...

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the relationship between exposure workloads and presenteeism among nursing workers in socio-environmental context of university hospitals. Method: this is a quantitative, cross-sectional analytical study with 355 from two hospitals southern Brazil. Data were collected November 2019 February 2020. The Workload Scale Nursing Activities Work Limitations Questionnaire...

The advances in Information and Communication (ICT) the need to perform efficiently have bought both advantages disadvantages well-being of employees. situation is further aggravated by Covid-19 outbreak recent company downsizing trend. This persistent high level anxiety may cause employees become physically mentally exhausted, which leads sickness presenteeism negative effect on employees’ psy...

Evidence about the total cost of health, absence, short-term disability, and productivity losses was synthesized for 10 health conditions. Cost estimates from a large medical/absence database were combined with findings from several published productivity surveys. Ranges of condition prevalence and associated absenteeism and presenteeism (on-the-job-productivity) losses were used to estimate co...

Social media are all around us, dominating the virtual landscape and infiltrating our daily lives. Usage of these primarily hedonic systems continues to expand. Past research on technology adoption and usage has prominently investigated utilitarian systems, though other findings have shown that different characteristics impact the usage of hedonic systems. Given the socio-technical nature of so...

BACKGROUND Working women of childbearing age are a vital part of the population. Following childbirth, this group of women can experience a myriad of physical and mental health problems that can interfere with their ability to work. Currently, there is little known about cost-effective post-partum interventions to prevent work disability. The purpose of the study was to evaluate whether supervi...

EDITORIAL Well-being—absenteeism, presenteeism, costs and challenges Despite the many initiatives taken to invest in the health and well-being of employees, workplace data still record the fact that 420 000 employees in Britain in 2006 believed that they were experiencing stress, depression or anxiety at work at levels that were making them ill [1]. If workplace health and safety data indicate ...

AMA Kotomska M, Kwiećkowska L, Kiersnowska I, et al. Presenteeism – a common phenomenon in the study population of nurses. Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa. 2023;31(1):6-11. doi:10.5114/ppiel.2023.129133. APA Kotomska, M., Kwiećkowska, L., Kiersnowska, I., Majka, K., Jaciubek, & Prasek, K. (2023). Pielęgniarstwa, 31(1), 6-11. https://doi.org/10.5114/ppiel.2023.129133 Chicago Marta, Lu...

Does union membership increase sickness absence from work and, if so, by how much? And which specific channels does this effect operate through? Using UK Labour Force Survey data for 2006-2008 we find that trade union membership is associated with a substantial increase in the probability of reporting sick and in the amount of average absence taken. This result can be largely attributed to the ...