The paper was based on the contention that teacher absenteeism is costly, which could lead to wastage in the school system. Hence, the paper analyzed the cost of un-authorized teacher absenteeism in Nigerian secondary schools between 1997 and 1999, i.e. two academic sessions of 1997/98 98/99. The analysis revealed that the cost of absenteeism was relatively high when the dwindling financial all...

This research aims to find out the impact of job stress on the counter-productive work behavior (CWB) and to quantify the relationship between Job stress & counter-productive work behavior. Job stress has a vital importance and has become a key challenge for the organizations because of its strapping impact on the performance of an individual as well as of the organization. Employees serve as a...

Purpose – The opposite of absenteeism, presenteeism, is the phenomenon of employees staying at work when they should be off sick. Presenteeism is an important problem for organizations, because employees who turn up for work, when sick, cause a reduction in productivity levels. The central aim of the present study is to examine the longitudinal relationships between job demands, burnout (exhaus...

This article examines the effects of computer self-efficacy and outcome expectancy on the end-user's sense of felt stress as mediated by job control. A nationwide survey of information technology end-users provided the sample. The results show that computer self-efficacy directly impacts personal and job related outcome expectancies and that computer self-efficacy and job related outcome expect...

We used a deterministic SEIR (susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed) meta-population model, together with scenario, sensitivity, and simulation analyses, to determine stockpiling strategies for neuraminidase inhibitors that would minimize absenteeism among healthcare workers. A pandemic with a basic reproductive number (R0) of 2.5 resulted in peak absenteeism of 10%. Treatment decreased peak a...

The problem of determining nurse staffing levels in a hospital environment is a complex task due to variable patient census levels and uncertain service capacity caused by nurse absenteeism. In this paper we combine an empirical investigation of the factors affecting nurse absenteeism rates with an analytical treatment of nurse staffing decisions using a novel variant of the newsvendor model. U...

Job satisfaction is a pleasurable tendency towards an individual’s job. It enables one to realize his/her maximum potential accomplish organizational goals productively. There strong correlation between job and leadership, absenteeism, turnover, exhaustion, physical psychological well-being, content life, productivity personality, citizenship. The world's top educational organizations view it a...

Occupational stress is a widely recognized in vocational rehabilitation. In particular, it is a problem for nurses in the health care industry [1,2]. Factors such as work overload, paperwork and patient documentation, exposure to violence, changing staff levels, job role diffusion, administrative duties, career development issues, coping with patient illness and death, and bringing work problem...

Job satisfaction helps create a committed workforce with many positive effects, such as increased organisational citizenship behaviour and reduced absenteeism. In turn, job can be through gratifications, wage increases promotions. But human is prone to being governed by the homeostatic principle will eventually return individual's base level. Thus, we longitudinally examined effects of promotio...