Dear Akhil,
Let me remind you a famous quote of Peter Drucker - "without measurement, there is no management". Therefore, if you wish to manage absenteeism, first conduct the study of the workers' absenteeism on the following points:
a) Absenteeism with respect to the departments and designations
b) Absenteeism with respect to the age group
c) Absenteeism with respect to the gender
d) Absenteeism with respect to the various seasons of the year
e) Absenteeism with respect to the production of certain products or requirement to work on particular machines
f) Absenteeism with respect to education qualifications
g) Absenteeism with respect to the specific time period of the month (i.e. after getting salary)
Absenteeism is a malaise due to which most of the manufacturing companies are afflicted with. The other causes of absenteeism are:
h) Company not having a brand image
i) Remuneration not as per market standards
j) Long working hours
k) Management treats employees as their slaves
l) Job and person mismatch
m) Lack of career consciousness
n) Lack of promotional avenues. People are working in the same designation for the years together
n) Company does not show any interest in developing personality of their staffs. They have a fear that if these workers become
educated then they will be smart under their feet.
o) Management is unable to calculate hidden losses caused due to the employees' absence. They just deduct the employee's wages and think that they are recovering losses because of the absence.
p) Tremendous competition in the job market. Getting skilled workers is difficult. Therefore, workers try getting jobs somewhere else. If things do not work out then they come back.
q) Poor or unsafe or unhygienic work practices. They develop health problems by working in this company.
r) No employee welfare activities to speak of
You need to do one more thing is to calculate losses that the company incurs because of lost or delayed orders, quality issues arising out of frequent turnover of the employees. Show to the management these losses are far higher compared with the cost improvement in work practices. For further query, feel free to
contact me.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
+91-9900155394