From Illness to Attendance: A Mediation analysis of workplace factors influencing Presenteeism in India
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https://doi.org/10.53555/jaes.v21i4.84Keywords:
Presenteeism, Health problems, Job security, Teamwork, Stress , Perceived justiceAbstract
This study aims to identify why an unhealthy employee going to work while ill. Hence, this paper exploring the relationship between health problems and presenteeism and identify the mediation effect of job security, teamwork, stress and perceived justice in between health problems and presenteeism. Data collected from a sample of 395 employees in public sector manufacturing organisations. Correlation approaches is employed in this study to discover relationships and regression method is used for determining the link between variables and the model's statistical fitness. The methodology used to conduct the mediation analysis is Baron and Kenny's (1986) three-step mediation analysis, its results are confirmed using Sobel's (1982), Aroian's (1944), and Goodman's (1960) tests. AMOS is also utilised to model structural equation model. This research provides evidence that health problems and presenteeism show a significant relationship. The results indicate that job security is working as a mediator variable in between health problems and presenteeism. Results also indicates that teamwork, stress and perceived justice not working as a mediator in between health problems and presenteeism. Hence study shows that job security is the reason why unhealthy employee is going to work while ill.
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