Performance evaluations of leadership quality and public sector leaders’ absenteeism

Løkke, Ann‐Kristina; Krøtel, Sarah

doi:10.1080/14719037.2019.1638441

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“…According to the Addeco Group Institute Report [2], the absenteeism rate (understood as the ratio of hours not worked for occasional reasons to hours worked) reached a new high of 5.3% in Spain in 2018, the year with the highest rate of absenteeism in the period from 2000 to 2018. The analysis of the determining causes of such high levels of absenteeism is of particular interest to groups such as employers, researchers, and public administrations [3].…”

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I Can’t Go to Work Tomorrow! Work-Family Policies, Well-Being and Absenteeism

2020

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Among the main causes of absenteeism are health problems, emotional problems, and inadequate work-family policies (WFP). This paper analyses the impact of the existence and accessibility of WFP on work absenteeism, by considering the mediating role of the well-being, which includes emotional as well as physical or health problems, that is generated by these policies. We differentiate between the existence of the WFP and its accessibility, as the mere existence of the WFP in an organisation is not enough. Additionally, workers must be able to access these policies easily and without retaliation of any kind. The model includes the hierarchy and the gender as moderating variables. To test the proposed hypotheses, a structural equation model based on the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach is applied to a sample of employees in the service sector in Spain. On the one hand, the findings show that the existence of WFP has no direct effect on absenteeism; however, accessibility to these policies does have a direct effect on absenteeism. On the other hand, both the existence and accessibility of WFP have positive direct effects on emotional well-being. In addition, emotional well-being is positively related to physical well-being which, in turn, promotes a reduction in absenteeism. Finally, significant differences in the relationship between the existence of WFP and emotional well-being confirm the special difficulty of female managers in reconciling family life and work life.

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I Can’t Go to Work Tomorrow! Work-Family Policies, Well-Being and Absenteeism

2020

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“… 36 37 In this analysis, we will be guided by seminal insights and suggestions—for example, on the value of polynomial regressions for this type of data—from recent studies with a similar data structure for other Danish municipalities. 38 39 Moreover, by the use of a response surface analysis, 37 the congruence of self-perception and others’ perceptions can be studied in relation to WSC, sickness absence and the manager’s own health-related measures. 39 …”

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Public managers’ role in creating workplace social capital (WSC) and its effect on employees’ well-being and health: a protocol of a longitudinal cohort study (PUMA-WSC)

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IntroductionWorkplace social capital (WSC) has been shown to affect employees’ well-being and health, yet it is not clear how public managers can create WSC and which forms of WSC are most important. This study is the first prospective cohort study to examine the relationship between management behaviour, WSC, well-being and sickness absence. It uses a validated and detailed scale on WSC, which can distinguish between bonding, bridging, linking and organisational WSC over time. The study thereby provides rich data giving a much-needed detailed image of how WSC impacts on public employees’ well-being and health. Additionally, the study pays special attention to the fact that these relationships can be different for different types of employees and therefore tests a set of relevant employee and context-related variables.Methods and analysisProject preparations in terms of agreements and data preparation of existing data started in 2019. This prospective cohort study considers and collects organisational data from 2016 to 2025. Annual employee surveys of more than 8000 employees (in a large Danish municipality) will be combined with register data in all years. This generates a unique cohort of public employees in different professions that are traceable over several years. The annual surveys include information on the management behaviour, WSC and employee outcomes. Fine-grained information on sickness absences will be matched for all employees and years under study. Moreover, confounders and the nested nature of the data will be considered.Ethics and disseminationApproval has been obtained from The Regional Committee on Health Research Ethics from Southern Denmark and from the University of Southern Denmark. The results will be presented at conferences and published in international peer-reviewed journals and in a practice-oriented monography targeted at public managers. The result will furthermore be disseminated to the involved employees through seminars and workshops in the participating organisations.

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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

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2020

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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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Performance evaluations of leadership quality and public sector leaders’ absenteeism

Cited by 15 publications

References 72 publications

I Can’t Go to Work Tomorrow! Work-Family Policies, Well-Being and Absenteeism

I Can’t Go to Work Tomorrow! Work-Family Policies, Well-Being and Absenteeism

Public managers’ role in creating workplace social capital (WSC) and its effect on employees’ well-being and health: a protocol of a longitudinal cohort study (PUMA-WSC)

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

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