Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185349 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11889
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
absence
absenteeism
HR Analytics
person-effects
incentives
personnel management
JEL: 
M12
M54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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