A research report submitted to
The Faculty of Management
University of the Witwatersrand
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of
Master of Management / Research in America shows that the traditional lifestyles
(poor diet, lack of exercise, chronic illness, poor stress
management and substance abuse) play a large role in causing
the major dreaded diseases like cancer, coronary heart
disease and strokes, and impact negatively on absenteeism.
Traditional lifestyles and absenteeism (absent without
permission and sick leave) of 126 employees were measured in
a manufacturing plant, and the results correlated by using
the Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Co-efficient and co-
efficient of determination.
It was established that the traditional lifestyle behaviours
do impact on absenteeism i.e. the more severe the lifestyle
and the unhealthier lifestyle practised, the higher the
individual absenteeism is likely to be. There was no
correlation between age and absenteeism and job grade and
absenteeism.
Before applying the traditional absentee reducing
interventions, an organisation should measure lifestyles of
their employees and if unhealthy, lifestyle change
interventions should be introduced before or concurrently
with traditional absentee reducing interventions if days
absent are mainly due to sick leave. / AC2017
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/22954 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Coppens, Jennifer Marie. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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