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The relationship between absenteeism and employer-sponsored child care
Southern African Business Review
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The relationship between absenteeism and employer-sponsored child care
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Anderson, B
Geldenhuys, DJ |
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Given the high loss of revenue due to absenteeism, exploring differentways of managing absenteeism in South African companies, such asfamily-friendly practices, has become important. Establishing onsiteemployer-sponsored child-care facilities is an example of suchpractices.4The purpose of this article is, firstly, to report on exploratory researchthat was done to examine the relationship between absenteeism andon-site employer-sponsored child care. The following dimensionsof absenteeism were examined over a period of one year: absencefrequency, absence severity, attitudinal absence and medicalabsence. The results of two companies, one with a facility and onewithout a facility, were then compared in order to establish therelationship between absenteeism and an on-site facility. Secondly,this article also reports on the relationship between demographicvariables and absenteeism.5The results indicate a significant negative relationship between onsiteemployer-sponsored child care and absenteeism. Regardingthe influence of demographical variables, significant differenceswere found with respect to absenteeism-based marital status andage, while no significant difference was found with respect toabsenteeism based on gender and race.6This article makes a specific contribution to studies on the useof on-site employer-sponsored child-care facilities for managingabsenteeism, specifically in the South African context, and also sheds new light on the influence of demographical variables onabsenteeism.
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College of Economic and Management Sciences (UNISA)
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2013-02-15
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76404
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Southern African Business Review; Vol 15, No 3 (2011); 21-45
1998-8125 1561-896X |
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eng
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sabr/article/view/76404/66862
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