TY - JOUR
T1 - Social comparison and absenteeism
T2 - 66th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2006
AU - Bamberger, Peter
AU - Biron, Michal
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Drawing from social identity and social influence theory, we propose that the absence-related norms of an individual's work-based referent others will have a significant effect on the likelihood of excessive absence behavior. We then develop and test a model of the social mechanisms potentially underlying the relationship between referent absence norms and the likelihood of excessive absence behavior. Our findings indicate that referent group norms significantly explain excessive absence behavior, even when taking into account the absence norms associated with the formal organizational units within which these referent groups are often nested. They also indicate that permissive referent group norms are likely to have a greater impact on the probability of target excessive absence when the target has a more conformist disposition, and that the association between reference group norms and the probability of excessive absenteeism is mediated by targets' perceptions of the net subjective expected utility of absenteeism.
AB - Drawing from social identity and social influence theory, we propose that the absence-related norms of an individual's work-based referent others will have a significant effect on the likelihood of excessive absence behavior. We then develop and test a model of the social mechanisms potentially underlying the relationship between referent absence norms and the likelihood of excessive absence behavior. Our findings indicate that referent group norms significantly explain excessive absence behavior, even when taking into account the absence norms associated with the formal organizational units within which these referent groups are often nested. They also indicate that permissive referent group norms are likely to have a greater impact on the probability of target excessive absence when the target has a more conformist disposition, and that the association between reference group norms and the probability of excessive absenteeism is mediated by targets' perceptions of the net subjective expected utility of absenteeism.
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U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2006.27161829
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2006.27161829
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AN - SCOPUS:85207433025
SN - 0065-0668
JO - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Y2 - 11 August 2006 through 16 August 2006
ER -