TY - JOUR
T1 - Employee absence and organizational commitment
T2 - moderation effects of age
AU - Woods, Stephen A.
AU - Poole, Rebecca
AU - Zibarras, Lara D.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This study examined the relations of organizational commitment and demographic factors with objectively measured absence frequency data of 106 staff at a UK school, collected over a 1-year period. We found significant associations of commitment and absenteeism, with high affective and normative commitment, and low continuance commitment being associated with lower levels of absence. Age moderated two of these associations, with low normative commitment and high continuance commitment predicting absence most strongly for older workers. Our findings help practitioners and researchers to understand how commitment may interact with other factors to predict absence. Interaction effects in our data showed that absence frequencies tended to be highest for older workers who felt a lower sense of obligation to their organization, or a lack of alternatives to their present employment.
AB - This study examined the relations of organizational commitment and demographic factors with objectively measured absence frequency data of 106 staff at a UK school, collected over a 1-year period. We found significant associations of commitment and absenteeism, with high affective and normative commitment, and low continuance commitment being associated with lower levels of absence. Age moderated two of these associations, with low normative commitment and high continuance commitment predicting absence most strongly for older workers. Our findings help practitioners and researchers to understand how commitment may interact with other factors to predict absence. Interaction effects in our data showed that absence frequencies tended to be highest for older workers who felt a lower sense of obligation to their organization, or a lack of alternatives to their present employment.
KW - absenteeism
KW - age
KW - affective commitment
KW - normative commitment
KW - continuance commitment
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UR - http://psycontent.metapress.com/content/260m6326n0v22572/?genre=article&id=doi%3a10.1027%2f1866-5888%2fa000073
U2 - 10.1027/1866-5888/a000073
DO - 10.1027/1866-5888/a000073
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871821717
SN - 1866-5888
VL - 11
SP - 199
EP - 203
JO - Journal of Personnel Psychology
JF - Journal of Personnel Psychology
IS - 4
ER -