| Author: | Chung, Wai-ting Elsa |
| Title: | The influence of work factors and non-work factors on absenteeism : a study among hospital nurses |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Subject: | Nurses -- China -- Hong Kong -- Attitudes Absenteeism (Labor) -- China -- Hong Kong Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Multi-disciplinary Studies Department of Management |
| Pages: | vi, 80 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Employee absenteeism is a costly personnel problem attracting the attention of practitioners and researchers. There have been over a dozen of books written on it and a number of studies have been conducted to identify its causes. Very little empirical research has been conducted to address the issue of absenteeism in Hong Kong. This study attempted to bridge this gap in the literature and examined the influence of work factors and non-work factors on absenteeism among hospital nurses in Hong Kong. Data on job satisfaction, job involvement, caring responsibility, perceived self-efficacy on job attendance, incentive system, the involvement of domestic helpers in sharing domestic responsibility and absenteeism were gathered for a sample of 160 nurses working in a public hospital. There was an unanticipated non-significant relation between job satisfaction, job involvement, perceived self-efficacy, reward system, caring responsibility, domestic helper and absenteeism in terms of number of sick days and number of sick time. Although the results did not show significant findings and the mean of the number of sick days seemed trivial, the cost it created could be damaging to a hospital when manpower is so critical in this difficult environment. These findings confirm that absenteeism does have an impact on the professionals. It is suggested that an extended study to include other cluster hospitals and privately owned hospitals would be informative when larger sample size could be obtained. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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