Readings Assignment #6: Costing Turnover and Absenteeism
Reading:
(3rd edition). Pearson Education: Upper Saddle River, NJ. Chapter 4.
(3rd edition). Pearson Education: Upper Saddle River, NJ. Chapter 5.
Assignment:
1. Think about your current position or a prior position you have held (provide a
one or two sentence description of the position). Based on your reading of
Chapter 4, how costly do you think absenteeism is for that position? You do
NOT need to provide an exact estimate of the cost of absenteeism, but I would
like you to think about both the direct costs associated with absenteeism as
well as the indirect costs.
2. If you had to provide even just a guess, what do you think is the cost (total, so
including both direct and indirect costs) of 1 day of absence in the position
you described?
3. How do you feel your estimate of the cost of absenteeism compares to what
others in the organization would feel is the cost of absenteeism?

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