Voluntary quitting of employees and their dismissal are varying outcomes of an extended process of leaving. When these events are combined, a significant relationship appears between absenteeism and turnover among psychiatric aides. The hypothesis that work reassignments foster absenteeism is tested simultaneously against the null and an alternate hypothesis by sitting on each absence as a reference point and comparing the number of reassignments occurring before and after that event. The hypothesis is supported, and the pattern found to be more extreme among aides who leave the job. The introduction of explanatory intervening variables is considered, as well as other effects of the convergence of individual needs and organizational requirements.
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Murray Melbin (1961) studied this question.