Too sick or not too sick? The importance of stress and satisfaction with supervisor support on the prevalence of sickness presenteeism
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- Ralf Caers, Key Lales Akgul, Stijn Baert (UGent) , Tim De Feyter and Marijke De Couck
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- In a sample of 3274 full-time Belgian workers, this article found that 62% of workers went to work while being sick (sickness presenteeism) at least once over the past 12 months. Of all workers who did not show sickness presenteeism themselves, another 6 out of 10 saw or heard about sickness presenteeism in their own organization. Women were more likely to report sickness presenteeism than men and junior workers were more prone to sickness presenteeism than senior workers. Education did not explain the choice for sickness presenteeism. Satisfaction with the supervisor had a direct negative effect on sickness presenteeism. Finally, indirect effects were found between satisfaction with the supervisor and sickness presenteeism via the prevalence of stress. While previous studies showed that good supervisor support can make sick workers more productive when they show up at work, this study shows that good supervisor support makes sick workers stay at home.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8589535
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- Caers, Ralf, et al. “Too Sick or Not Too Sick? The Importance of Stress and Satisfaction with Supervisor Support on the Prevalence of Sickness Presenteeism.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS, vol. 27, no. 1, 2021, pp. 278–89, doi:10.1080/10803548.2019.1570720.
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- Caers, R., Akgul, K. L., Baert, S., De Feyter, T., & De Couck, M. (2021). Too sick or not too sick? The importance of stress and satisfaction with supervisor support on the prevalence of sickness presenteeism. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS, 27(1), 278–289. https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2019.1570720
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- Caers, Ralf, Key Lales Akgul, Stijn Baert, Tim De Feyter, and Marijke De Couck. 2021. “Too Sick or Not Too Sick? The Importance of Stress and Satisfaction with Supervisor Support on the Prevalence of Sickness Presenteeism.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS 27 (1): 278–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2019.1570720.
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- Caers, Ralf, Key Lales Akgul, Stijn Baert, Tim De Feyter, and Marijke De Couck. 2021. “Too Sick or Not Too Sick? The Importance of Stress and Satisfaction with Supervisor Support on the Prevalence of Sickness Presenteeism.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS 27 (1): 278–289. doi:10.1080/10803548.2019.1570720.
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- 1.Caers R, Akgul KL, Baert S, De Feyter T, De Couck M. Too sick or not too sick? The importance of stress and satisfaction with supervisor support on the prevalence of sickness presenteeism. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS. 2021;27(1):278–89.
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- [1]R. Caers, K. L. Akgul, S. Baert, T. De Feyter, and M. De Couck, “Too sick or not too sick? The importance of stress and satisfaction with supervisor support on the prevalence of sickness presenteeism,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 278–289, 2021.
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author = {{Caers, Ralf and Akgul, Key Lales and Baert, Stijn and De Feyter, Tim and De Couck, Marijke}},
issn = {{1080-3548}},
journal = {{INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS}},
language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Too sick or not too sick? The importance of stress and satisfaction with supervisor support on the prevalence of sickness presenteeism}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2019.1570720}},
volume = {{27}},
year = {{2021}},
}
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