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Abstract
In a globally competitive market place companies strive to become as efficient as possible. Absenteeism is a worldwide problem as it impacts on company efficiency and cost effectiveness. A large portion of absenteeism can be attributed to ill health absences. Companies have prioritized the need to find ways of managing and reducing absenteeism. For this paper,the researcher set out to study the impact of absenteeism on organizational productivity with special reference to different companies of Nagpur region. The paper aims to study the companies with relatively low absenteeism rate and companies with relatively high absenteeism rate to find reasons that could explain the differences in their absenteeism rates. Questionnaire was used to gather data from two different companies of Nagpur, and the participants were the managers and employees from these companies.