Age, Tenure, and Employee Absenteeism Journal Articles

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 age (but not tenure) had a modest (p = -.23) relationship with avoidable absences, neither age nor tenure was associated with unavoidable absences, and sex of sample was identified as a moderator. Implications of these findings for the Steers and Rhodes' model are discussed in light of possible directions for future research.

authors

• Hackett, Rick

status

• published 

publication date

• July 1990

has subject area

• 1503 Business and Management (FoR)
• 1608 Sociology (FoR)
• 1701 Psychology (FoR)
• Business & Management (Science Metrix)

published in

• Human Relations  Journal

keywords

• Business & Economics
• Management
• Social Sciences
• Social Sciences - Other Topics
• Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/001872679004300701

start page

• 601

end page

• 619

volume

• 43

issue

• 7