Absenteeism among group-D employers

A study of absenteeism and man days lost in one hundred employees belonging to group "D" in a hospital at Jammu was conducted to explore the magnitude of problem of absenteeism and its remedy was sought. The study included the study of staffing pattern of the hospital, total group "D" employees, their jobs and work load and their attitudes, commencing from Sept. 1992 to Aug. 1995. Information regarding man days lost and man days schedule to work as records available in the hospital was used to calculate the trend, variations and fluctuations in absenteeism. For the purpose of calculations of absenteeism, nature of absence was divided into various headings like casual leave, sick leave, earned leave etc. A questionnaire was prepared and given to each employee and a detailed insight was sought with respect to his personality, social factors like accommodation, religious ceremonies, individual habits like drinking, gambling, job dissatisfaction and finally from the whole data absence rate, frequency rate and severity rate were calculated. From the observations it was concluded that absenteeism was more in females, in the age group of 33-45 years, married, in the months of Sept. to Nov. on Mondays and Saturdays and in Hindu backward classes. Though it seemed unreliable but all the employee opined that they were in harmony with their bosses and seemed satisfied with their jobs.