Timeframes and absence frameworks: A test of steers and Rhodes' (1978) model of attendance

Journal of Management

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 180-195

  Steel, Robert P ^a   Rentsch, Joan R ^b   Van Scotter, James R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence theory; Absenteeism; Attendance; Job satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147095864     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206306298656     Document Type: Article

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