The goal of this study is to analyze the previously unexplored gender and age specific relationship of flextime with absenteeism. This work is based on a French national survey on work organization and working conditions carried out on 25 000 employees. The approach taken is a quantitative...

This article develops indicators of vulnerability in employment in seven economic capitals of West Africa and studies their links with individual incomes. Quantitative, distributional and qualitative analyses show that vulnerability compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector,...

This study investigates the work status-specific relationship between a large set of organizational factors and intent to leave. Organizational factors includes monotonous work, time pressure, skill variety, job autonomy, working hours, flexible schedule, shift work, post rotations, painful...

In the literature, sex is often presented as an individual determinant of sickness absence. A common finding is that women are absent from work more than men. In this article, we examine sex as a variable that can function as a surrogate for certain workplace determinants. Our study is based on...

Workplace bullying is often studied using an individual approach that is centred on a pathological “play” between a torturer and a victim. Conversely, this article employs an organisational approach, as our goal is to analyze the organisational antecedents of workplace bullying. Our study is...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore organizational factors which are responsible for sickness absence among occupational grades. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken is a quantitative analysis with a multinomial logit model. Findings As unexpected, for blue-collar employees,...