PRESENTEEISM: A RESEARCH ON NURSES

Year 2017, Issue: 64, 368 - 379, 31.12.2017

Burcu Yiğit

Abstract

With the increasing competitive business environment, presenteeism is known as one of the problems of new business world. Even though employees attend to work, they are not working efficiently. This situation affects both the efficiency of employees and organizational efficiency.

The aim of this study is to determine the presenteeism behavior of nurses and to reveal wheather demographic features of nurses have an effect on their presenteeism behavior or not. The sample of the study consists of nurses that are working in an Education and Research Hospital in İstanbul/Turkey. The application data were collected by easy sampling method chosen by 77 nurses in the Education and Research Hospital.

Standford “presenteeism scale” was used for data collection. According to the result of this study, there are not statistically significant differences between demographic variables.

Keywords

Presenteeism, Nurses, Health Sector

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