FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYEE’S LATENESS TO WORK (AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON A SAMPLE FROM A WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY)

This paper investigates the factors leading employee lateness, based on a sample from a waste management facility in Istanbul. The data set included 2.433 incidences of lateness to work varying between 5 and 60 minutes for 128 employees. Lateness was the dependent variable, which was defined by the number of minutes late to work. The independent variables were employee characteristics (i.e. gender and age), job characteristics (i.e. department and position) and non-work factors (i.e. day and month). The study analyzed the predictors of lateness by hierarchical regression analysis. The results of regression analysis showed that some of demographic variables including age and education were significant predictors of tardiness. Moreover, tenure and department as job factors were observed to predict lateness. Also, the findings revealed that several non-work characteristics such as month and day predicted employee tardiness. All predictors accounted for 11.5 percent of the variance in lateness. There was also a highly correlation between tardiness, and age, education, tenure and department. Finally, a significant difference by sex was found with respect to lateness, with females’ workers having higher tardiness compared to male workers. Household and child care responsibilities are the possible reasons for that difference