Qestion
You are writing a business paper for your line manager at work on effective Absence Management Methods and they have asked you to write a short literature review on the topic. Based on an industry that you work in or one that you know well, write a short literature review (of no more than 500 words) that reviews secondary data on effective Absence Management Methods.
Your line manager has asked that you look solely at journal articles and text books to do this.
Solution
Part 1: Absence Management Methods Literature Review
Gajda (2015) asserts that failing to understand the cause of high absenteeism may lead to the development of an insufficient course of action to deal with the issue. Employee absenteeism is the absence of staff of an entity in the workplace. As noted by Hayday et al. (2004), the employee absenteeism takes place when an employee fails to show up for work or leaves his current workplace which can be justified or not justified. The author further noted that there are two forms of absences which include planned and unplanned with the reasons for planned being annual leave (holiday, force majeure leave, parental leave), delegations and business trips. Nevertheless, even in such situations, it is incumbent upon the employee to inform the employer of their planned absence in advance. The reasons for unplanned absences include illness of relatives, critical family or administrative issues, accidents on the way to work and events out of employee control. It is evident that past literature has evaluated the issue of employee absenteeism in depth (Bennett, 2002). However, limited literature is available that explores the best practices in the management of employee absenteeism.
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