The team leader on the surgical unit has frequent absences from work on Fridays. She phones and reports herself sick, but in fact she has day-care issues on Fridays. This is an example of:
1. Voluntary absenteeism.
2. Absence frequency.
3. Total time lost.
4. Involuntary absenteeism.
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Explanation: 1. Voluntary absenteeism is not coming to work due to a problem that is under the employee?s
control. Day-care problems are within an employee?s control. Illness is an example of
involuntary absenteeism. Absence frequency is the number of incidents that an employee has
been absent, and total time lost is a summary of the hours an employee has missed.
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