The relationship between employees' job dissatisfaction and presenteeism: A study of practice

Job dissatisfaction is one of the critical matters in the business world. According to this, enterprises must build a new order against the job dissatisfaction, except the issues, which are related their employees' personal dissatisfaction. Their order can provide achievement and feeling of satisfaction for business. However, job dissatisfaction can come out in different formations. For both employees and enterprises, job dissatisfaction is one of the toughest issues. Because job dissatisfaction does not have relationship just a few issues; it has potential to affect the other matters. Right in this point, there is a concept such as presenteeism. Although employees are seen as people, who just work in their offices, they have expectations from their enterprises. More important one, the expectations, which are not met, are threats for enterprises' performances. In this study, there is a general frame of job dissatisfaction and presenteeism matters. That is why, there is the general frame of job dissatisfaction in first chapter; the general lines of presenteeism concept in second chapter and in the last chapter a survey, which has been applied on 103 persons, who have different demographical specialties and work in different companies in a industrial district in Istanbul. The relationship between job dissatisfaction and presenteeism in this process and its effects on employees have been handled via this survey. Keywords: Dissatisfaction, employee, enterprise, job dissatisfaction, presenteeism