A kind of short-handedness: A review on hidden unemployed, their features and opinions about the workplace)

Abstract

Abstract. Short-handedness behaviors, which is one of the most important problems that all institutions are faced to regardless they are public or private institutions, may take the form of voluntary absenteeism, presenteeism, malingering and hidden unemployment. Unplanned delays, which may result from short handedness, that occurs in non-existence of employee at work physically or not contributing to work even though being at work physically, brings important costs herewith. Hidden unemployed, discussed within the scope of this study and creating short-handedness, has a job and being at work physically, but doesn’t devote himself/herself to his/her job because he/she looks for other jobs. It is seen that hidden unemployment concept is generally dealt with macroeconomic evaluations and within unemployment types, employees being at work but not contributing to work are emphasized, but looking for a new job while being at work is not mentioned. As things stand, hidden unemployed look for a new job because of individual or organizational reasons and his/her hope to find a new job is high. A comprehensive study about hidden unemployed, characteristic, probable individual or organizational reasons for hidden unemployment behaviors and potential for effecting institutional productivity is not encoun tered in literature. The purpose of this study are; to set up a substructure including enumerated headings, support ing this substructure with a field study aiming to reveal tendency of hidden employment of employees, thereby to guide human resources researches to be done in this field.