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Absenteeism and Behaviour Modification: A Review

G.C. Murphy

Operant conditioning or behaviour modification has stressed the role that the immediate environment has in in fluencing individual behaviour. The central concepts in operant conditioning theory are those of punishment and reward. In this area theory has suggested how behaviour can be strengthened (reinforced) by paying systematic atten tion to the immediacy and the frequency of the environmental consequences that follow the performance of required behaviours. While these behavioural principles have been widely applied in solving various educational and health problems, it is only recently that behaviourists have become interested in work related problems. This paper reviews recent applications of operant conditioning techniques to absenteeism and concludes that these techniques systematically reduced absenteeism.

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