Past absence as a predictor of present absence: the case of a large Danish municipality

Løkke, Ann‐Kristina

doi:10.1080/09585192.2013.831112

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“…In contrast to the attendance motivation argument and the healthy worker effect, the income-leisure trade-off model (Allen, 1981) predicts a positive association between work hours and sickness absence. Arguably, the more hours an employee works (and therefore the fewer non-work hours they have), the higher value the employee places on additional nonwork time (Chaudhury & Ng, 1992;Lokke, 2014). In other words, an employee with plenty of spare time will not appreciate an additional hour or day off from work as much as an employee with very limited spare time.…”

Section: Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship Between Work Hours Anmentioning

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A systematic literature review of the relationship between work hours and sickness absence

Bernstrøm

Houkes

2017

Work & Stress

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The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between work hours and sickness absence: is a higher number of work hours associated with better or with adverse health? A systematic literature review was performed by searching Medline, PsychInfo, and Web of Science. All abstracts were screened to identify papers that empirically investigated the relationship between work hours and sickness absence in a working population. A total of 1072 papers were identified, and 70 papers were included in this review. A simple measure of the strength of effects was applied, and the findings are summarized in narrative form. Evidence supporting a relationship between sickness absence and working part-time or work hours as a continuous variable was inconclusive. These inconclusive findings might be due to heterogeneity in the operationalization of key variables or to publication bias. Support for a negative relationship between long work hours and sickness absence was moderately strong. Possible explanations for this include the healthy worker selection effect, differences in job characteristics, and differences in job motivation. Empirical testing of these explanations, however, has been limited. Our findings indicate that employers should monitor employee health in times of high work pressure, even if sickness absence is low.

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Section: Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship Between Work Hours Anmentioning

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A systematic literature review of the relationship between work hours and sickness absence

Bernstrøm

Houkes

2017

Work & Stress

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“…If we take into account that for the occurrence of sickness absenteeism, a person and work are needed, it is sensible to define the influence of certain demographic characteristics, which are linked to an individual in a working environment, on sickness absenteeism. If we take into consideration characteristics that are connected to an individual, we discover that it is possible to find, in association with sickness absenteeism, that (Hum Wee et al, 2019;Lyszczarz, 2019;Buzeti, 2015;Løkke, 2014;De Paola, Scoppa and Pupo, 2014;Løkke Nielsen, 2008, pp. 1333-1335Løkke, Eskildsen and Jensen, 2007, pp.…”

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“…In the second model, she discovered that the probability for sickness absenteeism decreases with more years of service. Overall, seniority influences sickness absenteeism, both in terms of the quality of the person-environment fit, and also in terms of end-of-career frustration (Løkke, 2014). In the research of Rosenblatt, Shapira-Lishchinsky and Shiron (2010), "although seniority was not directly related to absence, the results showed that in high levels of seniority (5 years and above), the negative relationship between a caring ethical climate and absence frequency was weaker than in lower levels of seniority (3 years and below).…”

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“…The focus on studying the connection between field of work, years of service, and sickness absenteeism in public administration is motivated particularly by the fact that it is possible to find, on the basis of statistical data of the National Institute for Public Health (hereinafter as: NIJZ), that the share of sickness absenteeism in public administration is considerably higher than the percentage that applies for all sickness absenteeism in Slovenia. Sickness absenteeism is rather high in public organisations compared to private organisations (Løkke and Krøtel, 2019;NIJZ, 2019;Løkke, 2014;Coffey, Dugdill and Tattersall, 2009). In Slovenia, the duration of an individual case of sickness absence in the private sector is longer than in the public sector; nevertheless, individual employees in the public sector take sick leave more often in a year, which consequently leads to more days of sick leave per employee (NIJZ, 2019).…”

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Association between Field of Work, Years of Service, and Sickness Absenteeism in Public Administration

Buzeti

2020

Organizacija

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Background and Purpose: Statistics of sickness absenteeism in public administration in Slovenia is considerably higher (7.1% in 2018) than the percentage that applies for the whole of Slovenia (4.5% in 2018). The data also shows a similar pattern in the public sector in other countries. According to that, the main purpose of our research is to investigate the connection between fields of work, years of service, and sickness absenteeism in public administration in Slovenia.Methodology: Research data was collected with the help of an online questionnaire, which was designed for empirical research and consisted of several sets of questions. The collected data was processed using the SPSS statistical program.Results: The research was conducted in 2015 in public administration institutions, and 3,220 employees from public administration were included in our research sample. The results of the research show that there is a statistically significant connection between sickness absenteeism in public administration and years of service and the field of work of employees in public administration.Conclusion: The survey helps us to understand the connection between sickness absenteeism and years of service and field of work of employees in public administration. With regard to the results, it would be reasonable to adopt measures focused on groups of employees in public administration (older employees with a greater length of service, employed officials and professional-technical public employees) where sickness absence may be reduced. Sickness absenteeism in these groups of employees could be reduced by providing employees better leadership and conditions for satisfaction in the workplace.

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“…In the current paper, we have defined short- and long-term sickness absence as < = 8 days and > = 9 days, respectively because a medical certificate is required from the 9th day of absence, making it a meaningful cut-off point in the current context. Separating lengths of sickness absence based on the specific research context has also been applied elsewhere [ 21 , 25 ].…”

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Work-related moderators of the relationship between organizational change and sickness absence: a longitudinal multilevel study

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Background A sizeable body of research has demonstrated a relationship between organizational change and increased sickness absence. However, fewer studies have investigated what factors might mitigate this relationship. The aim of this study was to examine if and how the relationship between unit-level downsizing and sickness absence is moderated by three salient work factors: temporary contracts at the individual-level, and control and organizational commitment at the work-unit level. Methods We investigated the association between unit-level downsizing, each moderator and both short- and long-term sickness absence in a large Norwegian hospital ( n = 21,085) from 2011 to 2016. Data pertaining to unit-level downsizing and employee sickness absence were retrieved from objective hospital registers, and moderator variables were drawn from hospital registers (temporary contracts) and the annual work environment survey (control and organizational commitment). We conducted a longitudinal multilevel random effects regression analysis to estimate the odds of entering short- (< = 8 days) and long-term (> = 9 days) sickness absence for each individual employee. Results The results showed a decreased risk of short-term sickness absence in the quarter before and an increased risk of short-term sickness absence in the quarter after unit-level downsizing. Temporary contracts and organizational commitment significantly moderated the relationship between unit-level downsizing in the next quarter and short-term sickness absence, demonstrating a steeper decline in short-term sickness absence for employees on temporary contracts and employees in high-commitment units. Additionally, control and organizational commitment moderated the relationship between unit-level downsizing and long-term sickness absence. Whereas employees in high-control work-units had a greater increase in long-term sickness absence in the change quarter, employees in low-commitment work-units had a higher risk of long-term sickness absence in the quarter after unit-level downsizing. Conclusions The results from this study suggest that the relationship between unit-level downsizing and sickness absence varies according to the stage of change, and that work-related factors moderate this relationship, albeit in different directions. The identification of specific work-factors that moderate the adverse effects of change represents a hands-on foundation for managers and policy-makers to pursue healthy organizational change.

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Past absence as a predictor of present absence: the case of a large Danish municipality

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

A systematic literature review of the relationship between work hours and sickness absence

A systematic literature review of the relationship between work hours and sickness absence

Association between Field of Work, Years of Service, and Sickness Absenteeism in Public Administration

Work-related moderators of the relationship between organizational change and sickness absence: a longitudinal multilevel study

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