Effective attendance management: Establishing the causes of absence

Author: Lynda Macdonald

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides discusses strategies for encouraging and promoting good attendance at work. Here, we focus on how employers can uncover the reasons for frequent absence among employees in order to improve employees' attendance levels. This is the third guide in our series:

• Effective attendance management: Business benefits
• Effective attendance management: Procedures for managing absence
• Effective attendance management: Policies and practices that help foster good attendance