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Ferreira, A.I. (2017). The measurement of presenteeism at work: different methodological approaches or different schools of thought?. 14th ECPA 14.

A. I. Ferreira,  "The measurement of presenteeism at work: different methodological approaches or different schools of thought?", in 14th ECPA 14, Lisboa, 2017

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	author = "Ferreira, A.I.",
	title = "The measurement of presenteeism at work: different methodological approaches or different schools of thought?",
	year = "2017"
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TI  - The measurement of presenteeism at work: different methodological approaches or different schools of thought?
T2  - 14th ECPA 14
AU  - Ferreira, A.I.
PY  - 2017
CY  - Lisboa
AB  - Presenteeism is the problem of workers being on the job but not fully functioning, because of illness or other medical conditions (physical or psychological). The measurement of presenteeism faces tremendous challenges such as knowing how to measure something that has an indirect effect on employees’ performance. Presenteeism has been investigated mainly from two perspectives: the frequency of presenteeism and the productivity loss associated with presenteeism. For the first, the focus of research has been to identify variables (e.g. job demands, job satisfaction, and affective motivational states) that may influence the act of presenteeism. For the latter, researchers have examined presenteeism-constrained productivity directly by asking employees to estimate how their health has affected their work performance. The concept of productivity loss due to presenteeism has been more investigated in the North-American and occupational medicine literature. The current symposium presents some illustrations about these different methodological approaches in presenteeism evaluation, considering different contexts. Firstly, Martinez discusses the conceptual and methodological approaches considering the North-American and European perspectives concerning the evaluation and measurement of presenteeism. Secondly, Neto et al. provides an applied model where productivity despite presenteeism appears as a consequence of several individual and contextual variables. Finally, Mach and Patton present an innovative approach considering the adoption of scenarios describing the absence/presence of an employee, type of illness, and contextual variables of work. Practical and theoretical implications of such different approaches as well as future trends are discussed. Our goal is to stimulate debate and foster advances in presenteeism measurement.
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