TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationships matter
T2 - how workplace social capital affects absenteeism of public sector employees
AU - Pihl-Thingvad, Signe
AU - Winter, Vera
AU - Schelde Hansen, Michelle
AU - Willems, Jurgen
N1 - Funding Information:
The project was funded by The Danish Working Environment Research Fund (J. nr. 20185100800). The fund did not influence the study design the future work with the data, analyses, or writing. The authors thank the Esbjerg project group for their support in data mining, analyses, and feedback on prior versions of this work and Raphaele Bartels for assistance in sickness absence data preparation, data analyses, and manuscript editing.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Although absenteeism is a key concern in most western societies, research on reducing absenteeism in public sector organizations is scarce, particularly regarding the impact of organizational relationships. By building on the concept of workplace social capital (WSC) and using a large longitudinal cohort of Danish municipal employees, this study shows that three types of WSC (bridging, direct-leader-linking, and top-level-linking WSC) reduce absenteeism, while there is no significant effect of bonding WSC. Our empirical results further suggest that the relationships with the immediate leader and the top management (direct-leader-linking and top-level-linking WSC) are most important for employees’ absenteeism.
AB - Although absenteeism is a key concern in most western societies, research on reducing absenteeism in public sector organizations is scarce, particularly regarding the impact of organizational relationships. By building on the concept of workplace social capital (WSC) and using a large longitudinal cohort of Danish municipal employees, this study shows that three types of WSC (bridging, direct-leader-linking, and top-level-linking WSC) reduce absenteeism, while there is no significant effect of bonding WSC. Our empirical results further suggest that the relationships with the immediate leader and the top management (direct-leader-linking and top-level-linking WSC) are most important for employees’ absenteeism.
KW - organizational relationships
KW - sickness absence
KW - Workplace social capital
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U2 - 10.1080/14719037.2022.2142652
DO - 10.1080/14719037.2022.2142652
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85142187469
SN - 1471-9037
VL - 26
SP - 1033
EP - 1060
JO - Public Management Review
JF - Public Management Review
IS - 4
ER -