Impact OF Employee Absenteeism on Productivity-With Special Reference to Andhra Paper Mills Ltd, Rajahmundry-An Empirical Evidence.

Abstract

Absenteeism is a vital issue that requires immediate attention by both employers and employees. Employees should enjoy the work they are doing and employers on their part should help them in whatever way they can to make their experience a pleasant one. Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation. Absenteeism among worker is not only from point of view of cost concept, but it is important from the point of morale of employees. Frequent absence from the workplace may be indicative of poor morale or of sick building syndrome. Samples of respondents are interviewed with the help of structured questionnaire and data is presented in the form of tabulations with statistical tools. Thus the objective of this research paper is to identify the reasons behind absenteeism of employees, impact of absenteeism on productivity at Andhra Paper Mills Ltd. Rajahmundry.

Keywords: Absenteeism, Impact, Morale, Productivity

JEL Classification: G1, F21, F43, O43, O47