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The Impact Of Employees Absenteeism On Performance Of Local Goverenment Workers
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Although all employers are aware that sometimes absences are inevitable,
reduced attendance by employees can affect the bottom line by harmfully
impacting output, work excellence, self-confidence and customer service
and satisfaction. There are numerous contributing reasons that impact
on an organization’s objectives but one of the most costly is
absenteeism. Employers need to handle all forms of nonattendance in a
fair and transparent way to reduce disharmony in the workplaces. Within
the context of the public subdivisions in Tanzania there could be
dissimilar interpretations of conditions of service that relate to
absence from a workplace. For example, some employees employed in the
Local Government Authorities (LGAs) could perceive that they are on duty
when consulting any client while at home.
Managing workplace
absenteeism is one of the difficult human management issues facing
employers and employees for years and even today. This study tried to
identify the causes of absenteeism in the workplace as well as its
impacts; the findings of this study will be useful to the management of
human resources and reduce employee’s absenteeism at work places. In his
article Munro (2007) suggests that the issue of absenteeism should be
researched to assess the extent of such perceptions and actual loss of
working hours in a given productivity.
Most organizations do not
usually connect monetary cost to the loss caused by workers absenteeism,
they usually feel very unwilling to attack the problem and some
organizations are unaware of the problem. Extensive time, effort and
cash are 4 poured into attracting, selecting and training members of
staff, but too little of the same are directed towards reducing
absenteeism. It was worthwhile carrying out this study because of the
numerous problems associated with employees’ absenteeism and its
attendant effect on the productivity and effectiveness of an
organization or firm.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Coming late
and absenteeism is just a normal thing in the public service and it is
caused due to the lack of control and indiscipline in the public service
and had given room for inefficiency among public servants. Both
government and the public servants themselves is responsible for this
disease which had eaten deep into the fabrics of the public service in
Nigeria. Nnawuba (1996) refer to control as discipline has been
responsible for the poor economy of our nation. For instance, the
inflation of contract award by the public servants, embezzlement of
public fund, and civil servants engagement in political activities and
so on and so forth.
Employees’ absenteeism has been in the middle of
the serious troubles facing majority of the workplaces for years
particularly in the government authorities. Employee absence at the
place of work doesn’t only affect someone or an employee who is absent
at the workplace, but rather the employees in general and their
departments are affected. From the economic point of view absenteeism
leads to the loss of potential productivity plus the increased
government expenditure on needless interventions for example overtime
costs and other benefits to workers may be required to make up work.
Absenteeism reduces spirits of others and hence low output of an
organization, the researcher therefore.
1.3 Objective of the Study
The
main objective of this study is to find out the impact of employee
absenteeism on performance of local government workers, specifically the
study intends to;
1. Find out the causes of absenteeism among local government workers
2. Analyze the impact of absenteeism on the performance of Local government workers
3. To proffer strategies that can be to reduce staff absenteeism and stabilize performance.
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