Efforts To Reduce Absenteeism At Workplace

Absenteeism is a global problem face by all the companies. The rates of absenteeism depends upon size of the company, location, weather, industry type amd stress level in the job responsibility. All this impact effects virtually to all businesses. Absenteeism results in reducing employee productivity, reduced employee morale, and increase overhead costs. The efforts of Human Resources Management and the senior managers is require for developing effective Attendance Management Programme to solve the problem of absenteeism at workplace. Aim behind this efforts are as follows:

• Facility management is responsible for attendance and also the administration.

• Culture of the worksite is directly or indirectly linked with the attendance bahaviour.

• Leave taking behaviour is increasing day by day in the present organizational climate.

• Employees get the support of strong trade union as an alternative supportive system.

An administration is responsible for attendance, certain effort should be made at the administration level to manage the attendance at work.

• Under Human Resource Division, an attendance management team should be formed. Accountability of attendance management performance should be handled by front line management. Attendance management should develop a team and maintain the policy at each working sites.

• Open communication and information sharing between management and employees develop better trust and confidence. This practice encourage the employees to give their concern and help them to understand the perception of the workplace.

• If the industries have trade union organization, participation and representation in decision making encouraged. The importance of attendance management should be shared with the union representatives in the long-term existence of the organization.

• Conduct meeting to interact with the employers and employees. This help the employers to know the perception and attitude of the employees in many different situation that results in physical absence at the work.

• Relationship should be used by the managers as strategy to develop a group between employees at work. Informal relationship among co-workers helps them to share and understand the problem and make efforts to solve the problems. The feeling of informal relationship enhance the attendance of employees at work.

• Employees involve themselves only when they get the feeling of acceptance and greater importance at work. Make them feel free to give their ideas and suggestions even if it is not their job. Greater the feeling of acceptance,  result in greater the feeling of presence at workplace.

• Some employees comes from rural areas and have poor economic condition. An efforts should understand their day to day living, is also a positive attitude on part of management. Some social development programme should be made to meet the basic needs like poverty, housing, family development, child education etc. This help the employees to concentrate on their work.

The above efforts are some corrective measures that help the HR managers to restrict the absenteeism at work. The community initiatives and septicemic schemes are the major intervention in the field of attendance management. Develop the feeling of trust and confidence among the employees and support them in emotional affairs are the major aim behind the attendance management programme.