ABSENTEEISM
Act that protects employees with leave up to 12 weeks during any 12-month period for serious illness, birth/adoption of a child, or care of a seriously ill child, spouse, or parent from loss of insurance or job.
What is Family and Medical Leave Act?
Type of turnover management should be attempting to reduce
What is Voluntary Turnover?
Designing a bulletin board to highlight an employee
What is Recognizing Staff Performance?
Not coming into work because of personal reasons, for example friend is visiting the area.
What is voluntary absenteeism?
The number of scheduled days an employee misses
What is Total Time lost?
Feeling over worked, lack of career opportunities and support, inflexible work schedule, poor communication, low sense of control over job performance.
What are causes of nursing turnover?
Degree to which an employee is inspired by, willing to invest effort for, likely to recommend, and plans to remain in the organization
What is Engagement?
Termination of employment by the employer
What is Involuntary Turnover?
Personal illness/injury, family responsibilities, and transportation problems.
What are Attendance Barriers?
The number of staff members who vacate a position
What is Turnover?
Skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition, authentic leadership
What are criteria for a healthy work environment?
General attitude toward and tolerance of absenteeism
What is absence culture?
Creates physical and mental strain on employees
What is working shorthanded, heavy lifting, and working around contagious diseases?
When an employee chooses to leave an organization
What is Voluntary Turnover?
The effect from experienced nurses receiving salaries the same as (or less) than less experienced nurses
What is Salary compression?
Initiate an employee-of-the-month program
What is Low-cost Reward for Employees
Rewarding staff for good attendance, following attendance policies, and setting expectations with each new employee.
What are management strategies to decrease absenteeism?
Costs associated with the departure of an employee
What are Termination Costs?
Sign-on bonuses and loan-forgiveness programs
What are strategies used to attract new graduates?
Help with tuition reimbursement for continuing education
What is a Formal Reward for Employees