A FIVE‐YEAR STUDY OF A POSITIVE INCENTIVE ABSENCE CONTROL PROGRAM
研究了一家医院的正向激励计划对降低员工缺勤的效果，发现计划实施期间缺勤显著减少，并带来11.7%的投资回报率。
This study reports the results of a positive incentive program designed to reduce absenteeism at a hospital. Absence data for a treatment group ( N = 164) and a comparison group ( N = 136) were collected for one year prior to the incentive program, the three years the plan was operational, and the year after the program was discontinued. In the treatment program, absence from the treatment group decreased significantly during the first and third years of the program; effects during the second year of the program were marginally significant. No changes occurred in the comparison group's absence level. A utility analysis revealed that the incentive program produced an 11.7% return on investment.