Focus
- 13.1: Assessments
- 13.2: Staff engagement and retention
- 13.3: Health and wellbeing
- 13.4: Nutrition
- 13.5: Stress management and prevention
- 13.6: Resilience training and assessment
- 13.14: Creating a positive work culture
Challenges
- 20.1: Performance management
- 20.2: Negativity, conflict and stress
- 20.3: Sickness absence in the workplace
- 20.4: Staff turnover
- 20.5: Workplace bullying
- 20.6: Mergers and acquisitions
- 20.7: Recruitment and retention
- 20.8: Downsizing and redundancy
Solutions
- 21.4: Expert advice
- 21.5: Cultural change management
- 21.6: Leadership and manager behaviour
- 21.7: Team building
- 21.8: Training and development
- 21.9: Coaching and mentoring
- 21.10: Assessments and surveys
- 21.11: Therapy and motivation
- 21.12: Research and analysis
- 21.13: Executives retreat
- 21.14: Conflict resolution service
- 21.15: The Stress Advisory Service
- 21.16: Code for health and wellbeing
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Sickness absence in the workplace
The causes of sickness absence in the workplace
The ‘Iceberg Effect’ or ‘Presentness’ constitutes the major cost to employers that is associated with staff productivity. The ‘Iceberg Effect’ is the impact that negativity and adverse events has on the performance of individuals and organisations. The diagram below shows the types of adverse events that cause employees and managers to go ‘off sick’.
The costs associated with the ‘Iceberg Effect’ are shown in the diagram below:
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Professor Derek Mowbray's
speaking engagements:
20th January 2010
HSJ World Class Workforce
Cavendish Centre, London
Professor Mowbray
will speak about:
an outcome of a
Positive Work Culture