The Role of Leader Motivating Language in Employee Absenteeism
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021943609338665
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Mayfield, Jacqueline and Milon Mayfield
JBC
2009

Abstract:

This study investigates the relationship between strategic leader language (as embodied in Motivating Language Theory) and employee absenteeism. With a structural equation model, two perspectives were measured for the impact of leader spoken language: employee attitudes toward absenteeism and actual attendance. Results suggest that leader language does in fact have a positive, significant relationship with work attendance through the mediation effect of worker attendance attitude.