Work Absenteeism Management in Project-Oriented Organizations

: Absenteeism is absence from work for both justified and unjustified reasons, a disruptive phenomenon for business whose trend is constantly and steadily growing. The causes can be various, such as family problems, health problems etc. In project-oriented organizations, project team members are more likely to experience extremely high levels of job stress which eventually leads to absenteeism. Consequently, projects can be stopped or delayed if a vital task was dependent on the inputs of the absent person. The economic costs associated with absenteeism are high and significantly affect an organization’s profits. Absenteeism management is one of the most important strategic human resource management actions that a project-oriented organization can implement in order to ensure performance and success. This paper aims to systematically review the literature to explain absenteeism in more detail, as well as to present some of the strategies for managing absenteeism.