Employees Absenteeism: Barrier for Retail Sector Organization Success

Absenteeism is the term generally used to refer to unscheduled employee absences from the workplace. It is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation. Absenteeism is a big barrier for any kind of organization because its effect on organization growth. As we all know that human resource is an important part of organization and without them we can't imagine the organization. Absenteeism means employee absent for the duty due to reason of sickness, social functions, death of relatives etc. absenteeism of employees is normal but when ratio increase that directly effect on organization performance and also increase the cost and workload in organization. Absence control can often be an important step in the process of reducing business costs. Because of competitive pressures, companies can no longer afford to carry unnecessary absence that they may have tolerated in the past. Therefore, many companies are focusing on the issue of eliminating, or at least reducing, unnecessary levels of absence. This research paper show the how absenteeism is a big barrier for retail sector organization and how its give the inverse effect on organization growth and development.