management a strategic priority in their organizations? The reason is that conflict has key effects on productivity, decision making, and retention. With respect to productivity, consider the amount of time spent on conflict. Several years ago, Warren Schmidt and I conducted a survey on conflict management for the American Management Association. Managers reported spending 18% to 26% of their t...

BACKGROUND The occupational health and safety implications associated with compressed and extended work periods have not been fully explored in the mining sector. AIMS To examine the impact on employee health and safety of changes to the roster system in an Australian coal mine. METHODS Absenteeism and incident frequency rate data were collected over a 33 month period that covered three dif...

The aim of this article is to determine the trends in absenteeism from 2000 to 2012 in Croatia and to examine if the observed trends could be related to the regulations implemented to keep the absenteeism on low level. In Croatia only family doctors keep the responsibility for sick leave and were always been targeted by many regulations to keep absenteeism on appropriate level. A study was obse...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal disorders are frequently met in dentistry. OBJECTIVES To show the efficiency of rehabilitation and to make correlations among patients' pain levels, their overall health status, and the number of days of work absenteeism. MATERIALS AND METHOD A total of 390 dentists diagnosed with low back pain, scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervicobrachial neuralg...

Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are a leading cause of disability and disease burden in school-age children of worm-endemic regions. Their effect on school absenteeism, however, remains unclear. The World Health Organization currently recommends delivering mass deworming and health hygiene education through school-based programs, in an effort to control STH-related morbidity. In this...

BACKGROUND Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a major cause of sickness absenteeism among health care workers (HCWs) and contribute significantly to overall productivity loss particularly during influenza epidemics. The purpose of this study is to quantify the increases in absenteeism during epidemics including the 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic. METHODS We analysed administrative d...

BACKGROUND Absenteeism due to communicable illness is a major problem encountered by North American elementary school children. Although handwashing is a proven infection control measure, barriers exist in the school environment, which hinder compliance to this routine. Currently, alternative hand hygiene techniques are being considered, and one such technique is the use of antimicrobial rinse-...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether school absenteeism is a perpetuating factor of functional somatic symptoms and whether this holds true for bullied adolescents. STUDY DESIGN This study is part of the longitudinal population-based study Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey. Data from assessment wave 2 (n = 2149; 51.0% girls; mean age = 13.65, SD = 0.53) and assessment wave 3 (n = 1816; 53...