Research conducted by Vanderberg and Lance (1992) during wich they surveyed 100 profesionists in the
information services for five months showd a strong relations between job satisfaction and employee loyalty.
Their research proved that the higher the degree of job satisfaction the higher is the level of employee loyalty.
Employee abstenteism causes serious aditional costs forcompanies, therefore managers are in permanent
persue of ways how to decrease and reduce it to its minimum. Probabbly, the best way o reduvce ameployee
abstenteism would be through a increase in the level of employee satisfaction. The main idea behind this
approach is that the higher the degree of job satisfaction is the lower employee abstenteism should be.
Even though the effects are modest the fact that job satisfaction contributes to decreasing the level of
employee abstenteism remaines. So satisfaction is worth payng attention to , especially since it is potentially
under your control – unlike some of the other causes of abstenteism (e.g. illness, accidents). But aswe said
circumstances caan alter this equation. As a manager you could be implicitly encouraging absteenteism by
inforcing company policies. If people are paid for sick days, and if they must be “used or lost” this is pretty
strong encouragement for employees to be absent. In other words, you’ve helped create a culture of
absteenteism that can overcome the “satisfaction” effect. (Sweney and McFarlin, 2005)
When satisfaction is high, abstenteeism tends to be low; when satisfaction is low, abstenteeism tends to be
high. However as with the other relationships with satisfaction, there are moderating variables such as the
degree to wich people feel their jobs are important. Additionally, it is important to remember that while high
job satisfaction will not necessarily result in low abenteeism, low job satisfaction is likely to bring about high
absenteeism.