A diagnostic analysis of absenteeism: A case study in a Portuguese Cork Industry

dc.contributor.authorSilva, Alfredo
dc.contributor.authorRamos, Ana Luísa
dc.contributor.authorBrito, Marlene
dc.contributor.authorRamos , António
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-23T14:32:58Z
dc.date.available2025-07-23T14:32:58Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-21
dc.description.abstractAbsenteeism is defined as the absence of a worker from his or her workplace during a normal day’s work schedule and is seen as a problem which companies face every day. The absence of an employee can result in a significant drop in productivity and the company’s daily revenue can be negatively impacted by it, which when multiplied by the absence of multiple workers in different days can have a harmful impact on the company’s production. However, most managers neither understand nor have looked into the causes of their absence issue. This study took place at a company which produces cork stoppers, which deals with a problem of high absenteeism that costs around 1,200,000 € per year to the company. The main goal of this study is to identify the sectors which have the highest percentage of absenteeism, quantify its impact on related outcomes and diagnose its causes. The results show that, most absenteeism occurs in production areas and the causes are related to musculoskeletal problems. The consequences involve various costs to the society, some of them difficult to quantify. The methodology used in this study was the action research.
dc.identifier.citationSilva, A., Ramos, A. L., Brito, M., & Ramos, A. (2020). A diagnostic analysis of absenteeism: A case study in a Portuguese Cork Industry. In P. M. Arezes, J. S. Baptista, M. P. Barroso, P. Carneiro, P. Cordeiro, N. Costa, R. B. Melo, A. S. Miguel, & G. Perestrelo (Eds.), Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health II. Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (vol. 277, pp. 793-799). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41486-3_85. Repositório Institucional UPT. https://hdl.handle.net/11328/6498
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-41485-6
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-030-41486-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11328/6498
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41486-3_85
dc.rightsrestricted access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAbsenteeism
dc.subjectcork industry
dc.subjectproductivity
dc.subjectmusculoskeletal problems
dc.subjectworkplace design
dc.subjectworker's well-being
dc.subject.fosCiências Naturais - Ciências da Computação e da Informação
dc.titleA diagnostic analysis of absenteeism: A case study in a Portuguese Cork Industry
dc.typebook part
dcterms.referenceshttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41486-3_85#citeas
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oaire.citation.endPage799
oaire.citation.startPage793
oaire.citation.titleOccupational and Environmental Safety and Health II
oaire.citation.volume2
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person.affiliation.nameREMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies
person.familyNameBrito
person.givenNameMarlene
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