Transit Employee Attendance Management Volume 1: Review of Attendance Programs

https://doi.org/10.21949/14046941986PDFTech ReportDOT-T-89-02EmployeesPersonnel managementAbsenteeismMacDorman, Littleton C. and Schwager, Dianne S.United States. Urban Mass Transportation AdministrationNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Transit Planning and PolicyUS Transportation CollectionThe objectives of this report are to: 1)provide background information on theimportance of improving employee attendance stressing the costs and associatedimpacts of absenteeism; 2)summarize and review existing research and theories onthe causes of absence; 3)identify and describe alternative attendance programs;4)provide a review of the use and effectiveness of specific attendance programsboth within and outside the transit industry; and 5)introduce a recommendedframework for an effective attendance program including the identification ofimportant management activities needed to support attendance programs.84