Job Satisfaction and Absenteeism interface in Corporate Sector – A study

There are so many reasons for which employees are remaining absent on their duties. Most of the previous researchers had concluded that absence on duty is a complex variable and that it is influenced by multiple causes, of personal as well as organizational. But in our study we paid much importance to job satisfaction and motivation of employees, to make motivate to an employee, job satisfaction is essential. Job satisfaction is linked with motivation and it has been considered as one of the instrumental factor that influencing an employee to attend and perform systematically the assigned jobs. There are generally two factors i.e. intrinsic and extrinsic influencing job satisfactions. Extrinsic factors are influencing more. As extrinsic sources of job satisfaction includes Pay, work, promotion, supervision, co-workers, working conditions, leave, and fairness only. In this study we have obtained the results how that the extrinsic sources of job satisfaction have a direct impact on absenteeism. Thus, in this paper we have paid much importance that employers should pay required attention to extrinsic sources of job satisfaction to motivate and that will help to reduce absenteeism.