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A Model for Costing Absenteeism in Hotels

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A Model For Costing Absenteeism In Hotels, Venkat Chandrasekar Chandrasekar, Ronald F. Cichy Jan 1990

A Model For Costing Absenteeism In Hotels, Venkat Chandrasekar Chandrasekar, Ronald F. Cichy

Hospitality Review

While absenteeism models have been developed and applied in the manufacturing industries, little work has been done on absenteeism in service industries. Due to the labor intensity of service industries, specifically the hotel industry, a model to track and quantify the costs of absenteeism could be useful to managers. The authors propose just such a model.