Organizational factors and Absenteeism or Intent to leave: A comparison between young and 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 for sickness absence and intent to leave from juniors and to compare these results with those on old age workers. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken is a quantitative analysis on a total of 5239 young age workers with a multinomial logit model. Findings Compared to old age workers, some organizational factors (monotony, autonomy, skill variety, time pressure, working hours, tension with the public and thermal pollutions) have a strong impact on absenteeism and intent to leave of young age workers. Furthermore, the links between some of this organizational factors and absenteeism-intent to leave is mediated by job satisfaction and health at work. Practical implications We emphasize the importance of Human Resources Practices differentiated for old age and young age workers. Originality/value The interest of the study is to examine the relations between a large set of organizational factors (including bullying, tension with the public, aggression from the public) and absenteeism or intent to leave after controlling for many variables (size of the organization, work sector, gender, age, tenure, work status, social and occupation group, and position) and to compare the results on young age workers with those on old age workers

Keywords: Comparison between old age and young age workers; absenteeism; intent to leave; work organization; working conditions; social relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10
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Published in EUROMED CONFERENCE 2009, Oct 2009, Salerne, Italy. 23 p

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