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标题：THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLUE COLLAR EMPLOYEE FATIGUE, LEVEL OF SUBSTANCE USE, ABSENTEEISM BASED ON THE DEMOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION OF EMPLOYEES
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作者：R Fourie ; E Keyser
期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanity Studies
电子版ISSN：1309-8063
出版年度：2018
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：205-221
出版社：Social Sciences Research Society
摘要：A major concern for and challenge to the mining industry are the increasing perceptions of employee fatigue at all levels of the organisational structure. There is no debating the fact that the South African economy is dependent on the mining industry. It is compulsory, by legislation that mines in South Africa report yearly on employee fatigue. The emergence of fatigue in South African mines has become inevitable with the current legislation for the mining industry. Furthermore, employees with high levels of alcohol consumption are problematic, and these employees might use short-term absenteeism as a coping mechanism to escape their issues with alcohol. The primary objective of this research was to determine the relationship between employee fatigue, level of substance use, absenteeism and the demographical information of employees. The study also focuses on which group of employees, white- or blue-collar employees, have a higher level of substance use, and which group of employees have a higher level of human fatigue in the mining industry. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The data were analysed using the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) 24.0. The questionnaire used consists of a biographical questionnaire, Ergomax Questionnaire to measure fatigue, Substance Use Measurement Scale and a Absenteeism Scale. The sample was 386 employees of a mining company in South Africa. In order to prevent employee fatigue, it is important that the relationship between employee fatigue and accompanying demographical information of these employees be understood.
关键词：Employee fatigue; Substance use; Absenteeism; Blue;collar; White;collar; Mining industry