tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading 10

Với mong muốn giúp các bạn đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi, đã sưu tầm và chọn lọc gửi đến các bạn IELTS Academic Reading 10. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo! | IELTS Academic Reading 10 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are bused on Reading Passage 10 below. ABSENTEEISM IN NURSING A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Absence from work is a costly and disruptive problem for any organisation. The cost of absenteeism in Australia has been put at million hours per day or 1400 million annually. The study reported here was conducted in the Prince William Hospital in Brisbane Australia where prior to this time few active steps had been taken to measure understand or manage the occurrence of absenteeism. Nursing Absenteeism A prevalent attitude amongst many nurses in the group selected for study was that there was no reward or recognition for not utilising the paid sick leave entitlement allowed them in their employment conditions. Therefore they believed they may as well take the days off sick or otherwise. Similar attitudes have been noted by James 1989 who noted that sick leave is seen by many workers as a right like annual holiday leave. Miller and Norton 1986 in their survey of 865 nursing personnel found that 73 per cent felt they should be rewarded for not taking sick leave because some employees always used their sick leave. Further 67 per cent of nurses felt that administration was not sympathetic to the problems shift work causes to employees personal and social lives. Only 53 per cent of the respondents felt that every effort was made to schedule staff fairly. In another longitudinal study of nurses working in two Canadian hospitals Hacket Bycio and Guion 1989 examined the reasons why nurses took absence from work. The most frequent reason stated for absence was minor illness to self. Other causes in decreasing order of frequency were illness in family family social function work to do at home and bereavement. Method In an attempt to reduce the level of absenteeism amongst the 250 Registered an Enrolled Nurses in the present study the Prince William management introduced three different yet potentially .