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Predicting Female Absenteeism
Author(s) -
NAYLOR JAMES C.,
VINCENT NORMAN L.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1959.tb00798.x
Subject(s) - absenteeism , psychology , blank , sample (material) , social psychology , marital status , demography , engineering , mechanical engineering , population , chemistry , chromatography , sociology
Summary T hree items normally found on any job application blank were used on a sample of 220 female clerical workers in an attempt to predict an absenteeism criterion. Age and Marital Status showed no relationship to the criterion, while Number of Dependents was significantly and positively related to absenteeism in both the primary and hold‐out groups. This supports the hypothesis that employee selection may be simplified by using information already possessed by the company.