Absenteísmo e clima organizacional: um estudo de caso em uma maternidade de Minas Gerais.

Abstract

The research aimed in demonstrating through a case study, the groups of diseases that have caused sick leave among workers from a Maternity in the Southeast region of Brazil, as well as the result from an Organisational Health and Well-being survey done within the unit, to relate possible causes that can contribute to the illness of workers and other aspects that can decrease such incidents, characterised as absenteeism or sick absenteeism. It is important to highlight that this approach has identified possible causes that contributed to absences in the workplace in the years 2017 and 2018, providing tools to managers, in order to reduce them and to improve working conditions, in addition to permanent education, in the sense to make them aware that factors related to habits and lifestyle can positively influence the reduction of illnesses that reflect in the work attendance. Data have been provided by the Personnel Management and Occupational Safety and Health Sector of the Unit object of the survey, as well as data resulting from the application of an Organisational Health and Well-being questionnaire filled voluntarily by employees, based on defined sampling. The results showed important quantitative absences due to health reasons, however, it was possible to observe that financial incentive for the employees could have resulted in the reduction of absenteeism in the Unit for motivation and valorisation among the teams.