The Absence Management Pocketbook

  • 46m
  • Max A. Eggert
  • Management Pocketbooks
  • 2009

Sixty practical suggestions for reducing absenteeism are detailed in this title, followed by a look at the legal aspects of employment and advice on how to introduce an absence control policy. The author - management psychologist Max A. Eggert - also looks at the costs of absenteeism (monetary and psychological) and five ways of measuring absence. This is a new edition of The Controlling Absenteeism Pocketbook, first published in 2000. Other pocketbooks by the same author include: Assertiveness; Managing your Appraisal; Motivation; and, Resolving Conflict.

About the Author

Max A. Eggert is an international management psychologist who specialises in assisting organisations and individuals to achieve their best. He works mainly in the UK and Australia. A respected authority on the human and organisational aspects of change and empowerment, Max has delivered workshops and seminars to thousands of executives and managers throughout the world.

In this Book

  • Introduction
  • Causes of Absence
  • The Methods
  • The Legal Bits
  • Introducing Absence Control