What are the relationships between organizational factors and absenteeism-intent to leave for old age workers?

Grégor Bouville ()
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Grégor Bouville: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore organizational factors which are responsible forsickness absence and intent to leave from seniors.Design/methodology/approach The approach taken is a quantitative analysis on a total of4470 old age workers with a multinomial logit model.Findings Organizational factors have a strong impact on absenteeism and intent to leave,especially social relations at work and bullying. The relation between some organizationalfactors and absenteeism-intent to leave is mediated by job satisfaction and health at work.Practical implications The importance of Human Resources preventive pratices is raised.Originality/value The interest of the study is to examine organizational factors aftercontrolling for many variables (size of the organization, work sector, gender, age, tenure,work status, social and occupation group, and position) and to raise the problem of socialrelations at work and bullying.

Keywords: old age workers; absenteeism; intent to leave; work organization; working conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11
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Published in EUROMED CONFERENCE 2008, Nov 2008, Marseille, France. 17 p

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