This study focuses on the prevalence of presenteeism among the staff of the Ministry of Finance (MoF). A sample of 292 respondents from officers ranked Grade 27 and above, was involved in this study. The main objective of this study is to identify the predictors of presenteeism. The statistical techniques used in this study were the descriptive statistics, factor analysis, correlation and regression analyses. This study reveals that the prevalence of presenteeism at the MoF is still at an average level. However, this proves to be a more serious matter as compared to the case of absenteeism as indicated by the higher score (Presenteeism = 2.38, absenteeism = 1.75). The results of the analysis show that job demands and human resource policies have no significant and positive relationship with presenteeism. At the same time, organizational commitment is found to have a significantly negative relationship with presenteeism. Therefore the three research hypotheses are not supported by this study. In addition, the current job status is tested as a moderator to the three predictors. The findings indicates that the current job status only acts as a moderator to job demands. Job demands have formed a significantly positive relationship with presenteeism in addition to its interaction with the current job status. In terms of the effect's size, the three predictors contribute only 4.7% of variance in the antecedents of presenteeism. After the interaction with the current job status as the moderating variable, the variance increase to 10.6% in the antecedents of presenteeism. The respondents generally agree that they are more engaged into presenteeism as compared to the absenteeism due to the higher mean score of presenteeism obtained. Based on the small percentage of the contribution of variance in the antecedents of presenteeism, there maybe some other predictors of presenteeism that have not been accounted for this study.
