Absence

The reasons that people might take time off work. These can be categorised as:

• Short-term/long-term sickness absence

• Maternity or parental leave

• Compassionate leave

• Unauthorised absence

Why HR manager needs absence management?(most important)

• To better manage employees’ performance

• To against employees who take advantage of organistions’ occupational sick pay schemes

• To reduce the cost of any problem occurred by absence

• To ensure the normal operation of the company

How to reduce absence levels?

• Vindictive Approaches

• Attendance Incentives

• Preventative Measures

• Punitive Approaches

Which one is not the important step in managing absence?

• Investigate the facts whether there are any patterns to suggest it might not be due to genuine sickness

• Give employee every opportunity to explain their absence record

• Occurring dismissal

• Give formal written warnings explaining that an improvement is required

If someone has five two day absences, based on the formula, what is the result?

• 10

• 50

• 100

• 250

What could be attendance incentives?

• Lotteries

• Well-pay plans

• Additional holidays

• Attendance bonuses

“Fit for work” indicate that the employee has been unfit for work for at least how many weeks?

• 3 weeks

• 4 weeks

• 5 weeks

• 6 weeks

If our team absent this leture just want to show what is Absence, so that could be categorised as?

• Short term sickness absence

• Persistent lateness

• Unauthorised absence

• Authorised absence