ABSENTEEISM AND EMPLOYEE

TURNOVER
 What is Human Resource Planning?
Human resource planning has been defined as the
process by which management determines how an
organisation should move from its current
manpower position to its desired manpower
position.
Through it management strives to have the right
number and the right kind of people at the right
place, at the right time, doing things which result in
both the organisation, and the individual receiving,
maximum long-range benefit.
 Definition of human resource planning

 According to Beach, “Human Resource

Planning is a process of determining and
assuming that the organisation will have an
adequate number of qualified persons,
available at the proper times, performing jobs
which meet the needs of the enterprise and
which provide satisfaction for the individual
involved.”
 WHAT IS ABSENTEEISM?
 Absenteeism means the failure of a worker to report for work
when he is scheduled to work.
 Absenteeism is unauthorised, avoidable and wilful absence
from duty.
 The rate of absenteeism is defined as the percentage of
mandays lost due to absence to the total number of mandays
scheduled in a given time period.
 Absenteeism= number of mandays lost due to absence x
100
number of mandays scheduled to work
 Causes of absenteeism
Employees remain absent due to several factors
which are given below:-

Poor working Sickness

Nature of work
conditions

Alcoholism and
Accidents Lack of interest
gambling

Absence of
Poor management Lack of regular
housing and
system leave arrangement
transport facilities
 Effects of absenteeism
o Excessive absenteeism is harmful to both
employers and workers in the following ways:
o Regular flow of work in the factory is disturbed.
o Overall production or services are declined.
o Work pressure on available and present employees
increases.
o Incidence of industrial accidents increases.
o Workers lose wages for unauthorised absence from
duty.
Measures to control absenteeism
Proper
working
conditions

Proper
Reasonable
selection
wages rates
procedure

Cordial
relations at Incentives
work
Measures to control absenteeism
Prevention of
accidents

Housing and
Maintaining
transport
discipline
facilities

Effective Proper
supervision records
 What is employee turnover?
Employee turnover is technically
and mathematically defined as “
the ratio of the number of
workers that had to be replaced
in a given time period to the
average number of workers.
Causes of employee turnover

Pay is too low Poor Training

Poor
Lack of Benefits Supervision

Poor Less Growth

Management Opportunities
 Effects of employee turnover
 Expenditure incurred on hiring, orientation and
training of workers goes waste.
 Accident rates of new employees are usually higher.
 Smooth working of the organisation and quality of
work suffer.
 Human resources of the country are under-utilized.
 An employee who changes his job quite often loses
the opportunity for promotion on the basis of
seniority.
Measures to control employee turnover
Proper planning of manpower requirements.
Improvement in recruitment policy and practices.
Use of proper tests and interviews in selection of
employees.
Proper orientation and training of employees.
Better pay and good working conditions.
Security of service.
Provision of retirement benefits.
Employee consultation, suggestion, schemes and worker’s
participation in management.