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Human Relations free access article for August: Context and the social representation of absenteeism: Absence in the popular press and in academic research - Patton and Johns

  • 1.  Human Relations free access article for August: Context and the social representation of absenteeism: Absence in the popular press and in academic research - Patton and Johns

    Posted 08-01-2013 14:55

    Please find details of the August free-access article from Human Relations below – we hope you enjoy reading it:

     

    Context and the social representation of absenteeism: Absence in the popular press and in academic research

    Eric Patton and Gary Johns

    Human Relations 2012; 65 (2): 217–240

    http://hum.sagepub.com/content/65/2/217.full.pdf+html

     

    This article will be free to access until 31 August 2013.

     

    Abstract

    This study explores contextual issues surrounding absenteeism through a content analysis of 2847 articles from the New York Times that have featured absence from work. Our analysis focuses on two issues related to context. First, how does the representation of absence from work compare between the contextual domains of academic research and of the popular press? Second, how can event-specific news stories in the press deepen our understanding of how absence is shaped by contextual factors? Our results highlight both similarities and differences between the press and academic research, suggest several ideas from news stories that could lead to interesting future research, and underline management implications from this source commonly read by business leaders.

     

     

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    Claire Castle

    Managing Editor, Human Relations 

    Email: c.castle@tavinstitute.org

    www.humanrelationsjournal.org

     

    Human Relations 2012 Impact Factor:
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    5-year impact factor: 2.901

    Source: 2012 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)

     

     


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