The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines mental health as a “state of wellbeing in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or...
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines work-related stress as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand places on them at work”. Individuals can become stressed when they perceive they don’t have the resources needed...
This is a time to examine what organisations are doing to address employee health and well-being. It is worthwhile to recognise that there is correlation between employee health and productivity. As my first article highlighted, healthy employees make productive...
Below is a continuation on absence from previous research which I conducted:- It can be claimed that job dissatisfaction reduces employees’ motivation to attend which leads to absence. It is argued that job satisfaction is the strongest determinant of employee...
I conducted research some years ago on absence management policies and procedures and read and learnt several interesting things. The Rhodes and Steers (1981, 1990) process model of attendance includes causes of absence and a variety of interrelated processes. The...
