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...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore organizational factors which are responsible for sickness absence and intent to leave from juniors and to compare these results with those on old age workers. Design/methodology/approach: The approach taken is a quantitative analysis on a total of...

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...

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...