Transit Employee Attendance Management: Volume 1: Review of Attendance Programs

Details

• Creators:
  MacDorman, Littleton C. ; Schwager, Dianne S.
• Corporate Creators:
  MacDorman & Associates
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Transit personnel
  • Absenteeism
  • Personnel
  • Transit employees
  • Management
  • Transit facilities
  • Personnel management
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-I-87-12
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527425
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  In the 1980s, both private and public sector organizations are focusing attention on improving their performance. To attain this goal, numerous problems must be addressed including the reduction of absenteeism, a serious and continuing concern. Despite efforts of most organizations to reduce absence and numerous studies to understand the causes of absenteeism, no certain answers exist on how employee attendance can be improved or why absence occurs. Solutions that are effective in one situation may or may not be effective in a different environment. While absenteeism rates differ substantially between organizations within and outside the transit industry, studies indicate that employee absence is generally a considerable problem among transit systems. Organizations with more rigorous and comprehensive attendance policies and programs appear to have lower levels of absenteeism. These differences suggest that the transit industry need not be resigned to high absenteeism.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/640/dot_640_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.56 MB]
• Collection(s):
  FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6ba38f25a8bbd4d5d264c492d206429050c39759f3f784168525ce5c5ba078c0