Reducing Absenteeism and Rescheduling Among Grocery Store Employees With Point-Contingent Rewards

“…Considering that the intervention did not target advance communication of absences, it is unclear why planned absences increased during the monetary contingency phase. It is possible that response generalization, in which a functionally similar, yet nontargeted behavior is influenced by the operations of an intervention (Camden, Price, & Ludwig, 2011), accounted for the increase in planned absences. Put colloquially, it is possible that "responsible behavior" as applied to the behavior of showing up to work generalized to another response related to responsible behavior, that of advance communication of impending absences.…”

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The Effects of Monetary Incentives on Planned and Unplanned Absences in Adolescent Part-Time Employees: a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Berkovits

Alvero

2018

Behav Analysis Practice

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Few attendance interventions have (a) addressed the issue of absenteeism as it applies to part-time adolescent employees, (b) distinguished between planned and unplanned absences, and (c) presented a cost-effectiveness analysis of the intervention. This study employed an A-B-A reversal design, including a small monetary bonus for attendance by part-time adolescent employees. Results indicate a 60% reduction in average group absences during the monetary contingency phase as compared to both baseline phases. The organization spent a total of $264 on monetary incentives during the intervention phase and reduced time spent on hiring and training substitute personnel by approximately 60%. Supervisors reported that a better staff-child ratio helped decrease chaos in the classroom and promoted an overall improvement in the quality of the youth groups.

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“…For example, Ludwig and Geller (1991) intervened to improve safety belt use and observed an increase in drivers' turn-signal use; Ludwig and Geller (1997) also found generalization across nontargeted driving behaviors after an intervention targeting complete stopping. Similarly, Camden, Price, and Ludwig (2009) reported on an absenteeism intervention that also decreased incidents of leaving work early. Stephens and Ludwig (2005) found that nontargeted universal precaution behaviors increased during the intervention that targeted hand washing among nurse anesthesiologists.…”

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The Additive Impact of Group and Individual Publicly Displayed Feedback: Examining Individual Response Patterns and Response Generalization in a Safe-Driving Occupational Intervention

2010

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Additive effects of publicly posting individual feedback following group goalsetting and feedback were evaluated. The turn-signal use of pizza deliverers was studied in a multiple baseline design across two pizza stores. After baseline observations, pizza deliverers voted on a group turn-signal goal and then received 4 weeks of group feedback on their turn-signal use (i.e., group feedback phase). Then, for the next 4 weeks, individual turn-signal use means were publicly posted along with the group feedback (i.e., individual feedback phase). Deliverers at Store A (n = 24) increased their use of turn signals from a mean of 5% during baseline to 16.9% during the group feedback phase and then to 30% during the individual feedback phase. Turn-signal use Behavior Modification 34(5) 338 -366

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Reducing Absenteeism and Rescheduling Among Grocery Store Employees With Point-Contingent Rewards

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Effects of absenteeism feedback and goal-setting interventions on nurses’ fairness perceptions, discomfort feelings and absenteeism

Effects of absenteeism feedback and goal-setting interventions on nurses’ fairness perceptions, discomfort feelings and absenteeism

The Effects of Monetary Incentives on Planned and Unplanned Absences in Adolescent Part-Time Employees: a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

The Additive Impact of Group and Individual Publicly Displayed Feedback: Examining Individual Response Patterns and Response Generalization in a Safe-Driving Occupational Intervention

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