Voluntary Employee Withdrawal and Inattendance: A Current Perspective (Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice)

"Regardless of the job market situation, there is always a certain level of voluntary employee withdrawal - lateness, absence, avoidance of work, undue socializing - that affects the well being of the organization. This volume explores the various manifestations of employee withdrawal, how they may be assessed, and identifies relevant antecedents and moderators, attitudinal as well as behavioral. The authors have focused on issues such as national culture and perceptions of absence legitimacy, components of voluntary employee turnover, the role of performance management process in employee withdrawal behavior, and current controversies concerning the withdrawal phenomenon. In addition, some creative perspectives on changing information technology, the taxonomy of lateness behavior, and the association between smoking and absenteeism are offered"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xv Antecedents of Employee Lateness....Pages 1-20 National Culture and Perceptions of Absence Legitimacy....Pages 21-51 The Many Faces of Voluntary Employee Turnover....Pages 53-70 Employee Withdrawal Behavior....Pages 71-94 Meaning and Measurement of Work Role Withdrawal....Pages 95-131 Developing and Testing a Taxonomy of Lateness Behavior....Pages 133-160 New Conceptualizations of Lateness since Blau, 1994....Pages 161-165 Smoking and Absence from Work....Pages 167-178 Job Involvement and Absence....Pages 179-192 The Timing of Thinking about Quitting....Pages 193-211 Back Matter....Pages 213-216