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,...

This study investigates the unexplored occupational grade-specific relationships between organizational factors and absenteeism patterns. Four types of occupational grades were represented in the research: blue-collar workers (n = 7915), white-collar workers (n = 3386), middle-level managers (n...

The object of the paper is an attempt to develop new indicators for the measurement of work organization. In a nutshell, the aim of our research is to build workable knowledge. Our research will be drawn up from the variables of Karasek and Theorell (1990). We will start by testing the internal...

Quel est l’impact des modes en Sciences de Gestion, plus spécifiquement dans le domaine des recherches sur l’absentéisme? Ce sujet de recherche est particulièrement vulnérable aux modes, du fait de sa complexité et du nombre important de facteurs susceptibles de l’influencer. Ainsi,...

L’organisation du travail, entendue comme la manière dont le travail est divisé et coordonné dans l’entreprise (Barreau, 2005), a connu de profonds bouleversements au cours de ces dernières années. Au modèle de l’organisation scientifique du travail de Taylor dominant pendant la...