Attendance Management and Employee Performance among Selected Commercial Banks in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Abstract

Attendance management is a critical factor within any organization which has employees. Information gathered through attendance management reporting style helps in determining if an organization is on the right track as well as if it moving toward a successful future. The workforce is a key resource that a business should know the way to keep track of their attendance and time. Through monitoring attendance, it is easier for a company to determine which employees arrive on time, early or constantly late. Employees from different organizations are found to involve in fake leaves that cause negative impact on the performance of the organization. As a result, organization uses different types of management techniques to maintain the performance of their employees in various business organizations as well as in banking sectors. In order to determine the correlation between the two variables: attendance management and employee performance the paper used an online survey questionnaire to collect information about the research topic under investigation. The collected data is analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences using frequency descriptive tables. To test the reliability of the collected data results a Pearson’s correlation analysis test is used. To conclude, the paper provides several recommendations regarding the strategies that commercial banks within the Kingdom of Bahrain should be put in place to improve their employee attendance management.

Keywords: Attendance Management, Performance Management, Time management, Absenteeism, Accountability, Fake leave, Punctuality, Bahrain