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- Title
Teams, Teamwork and Absence.
- Authors
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe
- Abstract
We argue that firms with interdependent worker productivity, team production, have a higher cost of absence and, as a consequence, spend additional resources on monitoring absence. As a result, firms with team production should have lower absence rates. We estimate the determinants of absence for blue-collar workers using a sample of German manufacturing establishments. Workplace teams are used as a proxy for team production. The estimates reveal that firms with teams have lower absence rates, as do smaller establishments. The size effect, however, is unique to establishments with teams, which fits prior theoretical work that has not been previously tested.
- Subjects
TEAMS in the workplace; LABOR productivity; WORK environment; BUSINESS enterprises; BLUE collar workers; MANUFACTURED products
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, Vol 106, Issue 4, p765
- ISSN
0347-0520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0347-0520.2004.00387.x