期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies
电子版ISSN：1309-8063
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：2
出版社：Social Sciences Research Society
摘要：This study is designed in order to deal with the impacts of presenteeism tendency on work-life balance. The work-life balance indicates the consistency between the time spent at work and in private life. Conflicts between these two dimensions have become a major problem for businesses as well as employees. Presenteeism refers to the circumstances in which employees keep on working in spite of the fact that they are unable to work owing to their own unhealthy situations. So, excessive workload and sense of responsibility of the employees, who feel as if they are required to be at work not mentally but physically, cause presenteeism and this tendency is described as a big problem in terms of the work-life balance for the organizations. Organizations, by taking control of work-life balance, contribute to not only employees' health and performance but also organizational productivity and efficiency in general terms. For the purpose of the study, relationship between presenteeism and work-life balance is analyzed and impact of presenteeism is stated. The data have been collected from Aksaray province by using the survey technique and the data are analyzed via SPSS
关键词：Work-Life Balance; Presenteeism Tendency; Productivity ; var currentpos;timer; function initialize() { timer=setInterval("scrollwindow()";10);} function sc(){clearInterval(timer); }function scrollwindow() { currentpos=document.body.scrollTop; window.scroll(0;++currentpos); if (currentpos != document.body.scrollTop) sc();} document.onmousedown=scdocument.ondblclick=initialize INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITY STUDIES ; Vol 5; No 2; 2013 ISSN: 1309-8063 (Online) ; ; ; ; 120 ; ; JEL Classification: D23 ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; Presenteeism is a popular research topic in management field. The reason ; for its popularity is that there is a confrontation possibility for every organization. ; Any organization can face with this phenomenon because presenteeism actually ; means that an employee comes to the work physically; but in fact he/she is not at ; work mentally due to some health problems. Therefore; it is opposite of ; absenteeism which means almost the same thing. But; the difference between ; them is that in absenteeism employees are absent but in presenteeism they are at ; their workplace although they are absent from their workplaces mentally. ; Another research topic in this study is the work life balance. It also ; identifies the productivity issue in organizations. It means that an employee can ; arrange all of its responsibilities in order to fulfill the requirements prescribed by ; the organization. An ideal work life balance reduces the productivity loses and ; increase the sustainability for organizations. Nowadays; every kind of businesses ; deals with this issue and while they are seeking employees; they indicate this ; requirement as indispensible criteria. Generally; creating such a balance is seen to ; be difficult but when it is completed by employees; relations between workplace; ; family; friends and other special issues are designed accurately. So this prevents ; increasing pressures at work; eliminates burnout tendencies; reduce presenteeism ; and of course the productivity losses. Therefore; both employers and employees ; find out its beneficial effects and job satisfaction is achieved. ; In this study; two major terms for organizations have been studied. They ; are presenteeism and work life balance. Although they mean almost the same ; things; there is no doubt that they are both important elements for organizations ; and employees. In order to collect data; participants working in banks located in ; Aksaray province have been reached. They have been told about the study and ; data have been collected through surveys and interviews. Collected data have ; been analyzed via statistical tools. ; 2. PRESENTEEISM TENDENCY ; There are various definitions for presenteeism in literature. For the one of ; the most used online dictionaries; its meaning is that the practice of coming to ; work despite illness; injury; anxiety often resulting in reduced productivity ; (http://dictionary.reference.com; 2013). For the Cambridge online dictionary it ; means that the act of staying at work longer than usual to show that you work hard ; and are important to your employer (http://dictionary.cambridge.org; 2013).
