Absenteeism and Firm’s Growth: A Field Study

Abstract

As one of the noteworthy city in Bangladesh, Chittagong city’s firms play a significant role in country’s economy. Under such problem of absenteeism in Chittagong city’s firms, the growth of firms is not remarkable. In sample firms, absenteeism is hitting the comprehensive growth. With an experimental review the study aim of this paper is to scrutinize the basic relationship between absenteeism and firm’s growth. The study assayed all the direct and indirect variables of absenteeism which are inevitably affecting the growth of firms. More specifically, in recent time the firm’s growth is downgraded due to absenteeism in sample firms. The study observed that employees with high paid salary are active in workplace while women have the tendency of absenteeism in workplace. Few of the firms have the absenteeism guidance policy but execution rate is rare.

Keywords: Hitting comprehensive growth, frequency, parameters of absenteeism.