SHINTOME, Emilly Yukari; SALES, Maria Alice de Sousa; FERREIRA, Marlon Donizete; ROSA, Getúlio Oliveira
Abstract:
This article investigates faculty absenteeism in a private higher education institution,
analyzing microenvironmental and macroenvironmental factors that influence
teachers' unplanned absences. The research is based on the understanding of
absenteeism as a multifactorial phenomenon, related to both working conditions and
psychosocial aspects present in the institutional daily life. To this end, the research is
exploratory in nature with a quantitative approach. A questionnaire based on
organizational commitment scales as microenvironmental predictors and institutional
support scales as macroenvironmental predictors was used as a research
instrument, with the aim of identifying perceptions that function as predictors of
possible absences. Data were collected through an electronic questionnaire applied
to faculty and analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Student's t-test. The
results show that, although no statistically significant differences were found between
the groups, feelings such as responsibility, involvement, and enthusiasm appear
consistently among faculty, regardless of their length of experience. Regarding the
macroenvironment, participants reported high levels of perceived institutional
support, especially regarding the help received and the organization's willingness to
offer support in special situations. Care should be taken to maintain and constantly
improve the indicators, with special attention to younger teachers, a significant group
of respondents in the study. The set of predictors, both microenvironmental and
macroenvironmental, indicates a low level of propensity for teacher absenteeism.
