'The Value of Rude Health': employees' well being, absence and workplace performance

Simone Moriconi

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Abstract

This paper brings new evidence on the relationship between employees' well being, sickness absence and four dimensions of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset with monthly observations over two years for 48 local units of a large multi-site organisation in the logistics sector. It finds that good consultation and communication at the local level are associated with lower absenteeism. It also finds that lower absence is associated with higher efficiency, productivity, quality of the service and profitability of the firm. Finally, the authors suggest that the link between workers’ absence and this firm’s profitability runs through the increased use of replacement labour which raises short-run costs and reduces quality of service.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)115-152
Numero di pagine38
Rivistaadvances in industrial and labor relations
Volume18
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2011

Keywords

  • absenteeism
  • safety

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