Özet:

The concept of personality, which differs from in many ways, is the basis for the differentiation of individuals’ behavior. The Presenteeism behavior, which can be shown up in the business environment by individuals, has become an important concept especially in terms of businesses. Because of the small number of studies dealing with personality traits and concepts of presenteeism which means being at work in spite of feeling ill, together, this study especially aims to contribute to the literature by examining presenteeism behavior in terms of A and B type of personality characteristics. The main purpose of this study is to examine whether presenteeism has changed to A and B personality characteristics, and also to investigate Presenteeism behavior according to the demographic characteristics of the participants. The sample of the research consists of 157 participants who were reached with the convenience sampling method. According to the results of the study, Presenteeism behavior is more common in the participants with Type A personality than the participants with Type B. In addition women compared to men managers compared to employees young people compared to the elderly low level of education compared to high level of education, show more Presenteeism behavior than the ones with.