title: Self-rated job performance and absenteeism according to employee engagement, health behaviors, and physical health.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To better understand the combined influence of employee engagement, health behavior, and physical health on job performance and absenteeism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analyses were based on 20,114 employees who completed the Healthways Well-Being Assessment from 2008 to 2010. Employees represented three geographically dispersed companies in the United States.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Employee engagement, health behavior, and physical health indices were simultaneously significantly associated with job performance and also with absenteeism. Employee engagement had a greater association with job performance than did the health behavior or physical health indices, whereas the physical health index was more strongly associated with absenteeism. Specific elements of the indices were evaluated for association with self-rated job performance and absenteeism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Efforts to improve worker productivity should take a holistic approach encompassing employee health improvement and engagement strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, College of Life Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA. Ray_Merrill@byu.edu
authors.forename: Ray M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Merrill
authors.forename: Steven G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Aldana
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Pope
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Carter R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Coberley
authors.forename: Jessica J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Grossmeier
authors.forename: R William
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Whitmer
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016272:Occupational Health; D012044:Regression Analysis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult