Şenel, Bilgin Anadolu Üniversitesi - Mühendislik Mimarlık Fakültesi - Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Turkey

THE INVESTIGATION ABSENTEEISM’S COST AND REASONS

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Employee absence, being serious financial burden for businesses which wish to continue their struggle in tough competitive conditions of today, has become a very important issue to be resolved. Absenteeism of blue-collar employee of automobile and truck manufacturer in Turkey operating in the automotive industry has been analyzed. In these analyzes, whether there is a relationship between demographic factors, tenure, department worked and absenteeism or not has been determined and then has been tried to determine the cost of absenteeism. 479 blue-collar employees of company were included in the study. In order to test the hypothesis suggested in this study, two different regression models were constructed. In these two different regression model, only second regression model has been consistent. As a result of this study, blue-collar workers tenure affected absenteeism has been found. Most importantly, the cost of the blue-collar workers absenteeism for one year is 76.000 TL.

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Absenteeism , Automotive Industry , Demographic Characteristics , Absenteeism , Cost of Absenteeism

The Journal Of Marmara Social Research

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