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New Directions in Managing Employee Absence:
An evidence-based approach

 
Peter Spurgeon, Patti Mazelan, Fred Barwell, Hugh Flanagan
 
Pages: 64   Published: June 2007
 
ISBN13: 9781843981855
 
Price: £49.99
 
Member price: £29.99
 
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Description
 
 
How can case-sensitive data help you in your approach to absence management? What factors must be considered in understanding patterns of individual sickness absence? And how can you develop more accurately targeted cost-beneficial intervention strategies? Sickness absence costs organisations hundreds of pounds per employee per year. This report analyses data collected from 40 different organisations and comprising over 80,000 absence spells of 30,000 individual employees to help you understand absence and develop a systematic approach to managing it.

The method used in this study:
- allows the analysis of both sickness spells and the absence record of a particular employee in relation to a
reference group
- extends current thinking about HR interventions by facilitating precision and sophistication in managing
individual cases
- improves the potential for making early and preventative interventions
- shows the cost benefits of managing risk by identifying and anticipating patterns of absence.

Benefits for you:
- Privileged access to real-time data held within a unique sickness absence database
- Recommendations for managing short and long term sickness absence
- Advice on managing the causes of absence
 
 
 
Contents
 
1 Introduction: background to the project
2 Results of the analysis
3 Reasons for absence, and risk impact
4 A risk-based approach to managing absence
5 Reasons for absence and absence spells
6 Main findings of the study
 
 
 
About the author(s)
 
Peter Spurgeon


Patti Mazelan


Fred Barwell


Hugh Flanagan


 
 

 
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