Reducing Older Workers’ Sickness Absence: The Moderating Role of Perceived Fairness

• DOI: 10.1093/workar/waz022
• Publication Date: 2019-11-07T12:10:28Z
• Authors: Bernadeta Goštaut...; Yiduo Shao
• Keywords: Social exchange theory; Survey data collection; Vulnerability; Association (psychology)

Abstract Although aging is often associated with higher vulnerability for illness, research has reported mixed results regarding the relationship between workers’ age and sickness absence. Drawing on social exchange theory, we propose that perceived fairness may attenuate positive association employee We tested our hypotheses by matching survey data organizational archival absence from a public sector organization in Lithuania (n = 458). Our findings showed buffered negative effect of absence, which provides important implications.