Your Attitude Is Showing: A Primer of Human Relations, Tenth Edition

Absenteeism Policy

What is the basic policy that most business and government organizations have toward absenteeism and reporting to work late? What is acceptable and what is not? What is management’s attitude toward the problem, and what action does it take with those who consistently violate their policies?

Most professional managers in business and government endorse and try to get their employees to live within the framework and spirit of the following policy:

Employees should not come to work when one of the following conditions exist:

1. when it might endanger their own health or that of their co-workers;

2. when the employee is in a psychological or emotional state that could hurt on-the-job productivity and possibly create an unsafe condition; ...