Presenteeism at Work

Cary L. Cooper is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School. He is the author/editor of over 160 books, including the Downsizing: Is Less Still More? (Cambridge, 2012) and Building More Effective Organizations (Cambridge, 2007), as well as over 100 book chapters. He has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV, and radio. He is currently Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Co-editor of the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness, and President of the British Academy of Management and the CIPD. Luo Lu is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Business Administration, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. She has been awarded the Distinguished Research Award by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. She has published more than 180 papers in referred journals and is the series editor, author, and co-author of more than 20 books and book chapters.

Introduction Cary L. Cooper and Luo Lu; Part I. Situating Presenteeism on the Global Stage: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: 1. presenteeism: an introduction to a prevailing global phenomenon Cary L. Cooper and Maria Karanika-Murray; 2. Presenteeism: a critical review of the literature Mouna Knani, Caroline Biron and Pierre-Sébastien Fournier; 3. Understanding the excessive availability for work in the Confucian Asia: interactions between socio-cultural forces and personal drives Luo Lu and Shu-Fang Kao; Part II. Understanding the Behavior of Presenteeism: 4. Motivation and presenteeism: the whys and whats Jie Ma, Dan Meltzer, Liu-Qin Yang and Cong Liu; 5. The dynamic of assiduity at work: presenteeism and absenteeism Eric Gosselin; 6. Sickness presenteeism and attendance-pressure factors Gunnar Aronsson and Staffan Marklund; 7. Presenteeism in economic research Petri Böckerman; Part III. Understanding the Consequences of Presenteeism: 8. Presenteeism and wellbeing at work Mariella Miraglia and Gary Johns; 9. Presenteeism, burnout and health Aristides I. Ferreira; 10. Presenteeism and innovative behaviour Hsueh-Liang Fan; Part IV. Understanding Presenteeism in Cross-Cultural Context: 11. Presenteeism and work-family/family-work conflict: a cross-cultural approach with two Latin countries Luis F. Martinez, Aristides I. Ferreira and Tânia A. M. Nunes; 12. Presenteeism in the Chinese work context Yanxia Wang, Chih-Chieh Chen and Patricia Fosh.