Personalidad y ausentismo en trabajadores de servicios generales de una universidad pública

Abstract

Objective: the current research aimed at identifying and describing some absenteeism causes and personality features, in employees from the general services Area of a state university, which reported work absenteeism during the periods 2006-2008. Materials and method: for the study, a non-experimental research was used, with a transactional descriptive design of only one group. The participants of the study were forty public employees, 57% males and 43% females between the ages of 25 and 65 years old, with an average age of 45.68. The 35% of the population belongs to the surveillance area, 25% to the currier area, 17.5% to the maintenance area, 7.5% to cafeteria and carpentry respectively; the final 2.5% belongs to transportation, masonry, and archive. The group of employees presents an average of 18.5 years of entailment in the organization, and an average of 8.08 years of stability in the position. For this research, the Big Five Factors Questionnaire (Big Five-BFQ), the Profile- Personality Inventory (P-IPG), and a demographic record were the instruments applied. Once the workers were informed about the scope of the study, they had to sign the consent form.  Results: regarding the personality features of the dimensions and sub-dimensions of the BFQ as well as in the P-IPG scales, the individuals were located in average, low and very low ranges. The total absenteeism presented an average of 20.13 days. 

Keywords:

Ausentismo

personalidad

riesgo ocupacional

universidad

Absenteeism

personality

occupational risk

university

Absentismo

personalidade

risco ocupacional

universidade

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