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Age, Tenure, and Employee Absenteeism
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Age, Tenure, and Employee Absenteeism

Abstract

Two demographic/personal characteristics in the Steers and Rhodes' (1978, 1984) process model of employee attendance, and on which considerable research has accumulated in the absenteeism literature, are age and tenure. Recent narrative reviews of this research show that the results are quite mixed and likely to depend upon sex of the sample and absence type. A meta-analysis (Hunter, Schmidt, & Jackson, 1982) of this literature revealed that …

Authors

Hackett RD

Journal

Human Relations, Vol. 43, No. 7, pp. 601–619

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

July 1990

DOI

10.1177/001872679004300701

ISSN

0018-7267