TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Eskildsen, Jacob Kjær
AU  - Frederiksen, Anders
AU  - Løkke, Ann-Kristina
        TI  - Employee Absence: An Organizational Perspective
        PY  - 2018/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11889
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11889
        AB  - We study employee absence in Danish organizations. In contrast to Steers and Rhodes (1978), who stress the importance of individual and organizational characteristics in shaping employees' motivation to attend work, we show that absence is predominantly an individualized phenomenon. Because the within-group variation in absence clearly dominates the between-group variation in absence, we argue that companies need to invoke individualized policies to reduce employee absence and demonstrate that HR Analytics is a useful tool in the process; policies targeting particular employee groups such as women or senior workers are inefficient. An additional intriguing finding is that incentives (through promotions and dismissals) are linked to individual absence.
        KW  - personnel management
KW  - absence
KW  - absenteeism
KW  - HR Analytics
KW  - person-effects
KW  - incentives
        ER  -