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Turnover & Absenteeism Rates

ORGANIZATIONAL TURNOVER, ABSENTEEISM, AND THE FACTORS

National statistics are available on turnover and absenteeism rates in America. Regarding turnover, in his analysis of national statistics, Maguire (1993) found that, on the average, United States workers spend about 6.5 years in the same occupation and 4.5 years with the same employer. Regarding absences, in his analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data, Meisenheimer (1990) found that during a given week, about 4.3 million full-time wage and salary workers take at least one absence from their jobs effectively reducing their work hours from 40 to 35 hours per week and producing a national absence rate of about 5.1 percent.

Turnover and absenteeism have long been of serious concern to employers; this because the behaviors increase operating and hiring costs, cause morale problems, and generally disrupt organizational efficiency (Porter & Steers, 1973; Muchinsky & Tuttle, 1979; Arnold & Feldman, 1982). Because of this concern, there has been over thirty decades of research directed at examining organizational turnover, absenteeism, and the factors affecting these variables.

The review of literature presented here examines this literature in an effort to build a comprehensive profile of both the interrelationships between these two forms of organizational withdrawal behavior and the variables that affect one or both of these factors. The review begins with an examination of research related to correlations between employee absenteeism and turnover.

Relationships Between Turnover and Absenteeism

According to Lyons (1972), there has been a good deal of research examining for relationship between turnover and absenteeism. Lyons notes that this research, for the most part, has been based on one of the three following assumptions: (1) Withdrawal behavior runs along a continuum that begins with absenteeism and ends with turnover; (2) Absenteeism is a form of...

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