The Management of Employee Discipline
The Management of Employee Discipline
I. Problem and Its background
a. Introduction
Discipline is regarded as the training of the mental, physical, moral, and development of individual character inherent in an organizational system. It is also the training that corrects and strengthens personal values and the development of self-discipline. It is the manner in which, member of the organization conform to the established rules and regulations which experience has shown to be desirable.
An employee’s attitude toward work is a crucial factor of productivity or performance and discipline plays an important role. Most people equate discipline with punishment but the true meaning connotes that discipline is a corrective action for better performance.
Discipline is an instrument of management against the infraction of company policies and rules and its purpose is preventive rather than punitive. It is a preventive measure that hinders the commission of offenses, which could affect the good relationships of the members of the organization and its goal of profitability and performance. It is a process of control to protect the interest or the organization as well as those of the employees.
Discipline implies that certain activities are not done according to specified forms of behaviour or conduct prescribed in the company policy, rules and regulation, and some forms of penalty must be imposed upon the individual employee concerned. It tends to teach and reform and to prevent others from committing similar offenses.
b. Problem
* What are the roles of a human resource manager’s in disciplining employees? * What are the different types of penalties? * What is the role of managerial counselling in maintaining discipline? Does it effective? * What are the corrective disciplinary management?
II. Review of Related Literature “The Three Dimensions of Discipline”, it is a mean of telling the employees what is expected of them. An organization
I. Problem and Its background
a. Introduction
Discipline is regarded as the training of the mental, physical, moral, and development of individual character inherent in an organizational system. It is also the training that corrects and strengthens personal values and the development of self-discipline. It is the manner in which, member of the organization conform to the established rules and regulations which experience has shown to be desirable.
An employee’s attitude toward work is a crucial factor of productivity or performance and discipline plays an important role. Most people equate discipline with punishment but the true meaning connotes that discipline is a corrective action for better performance.
Discipline is an instrument of management against the infraction of company policies and rules and its purpose is preventive rather than punitive. It is a preventive measure that hinders the commission of offenses, which could affect the good relationships of the members of the organization and its goal of profitability and performance. It is a process of control to protect the interest or the organization as well as those of the employees.
Discipline implies that certain activities are not done according to specified forms of behaviour or conduct prescribed in the company policy, rules and regulation, and some forms of penalty must be imposed upon the individual employee concerned. It tends to teach and reform and to prevent others from committing similar offenses.
b. Problem
* What are the roles of a human resource manager’s in disciplining employees? * What are the different types of penalties? * What is the role of managerial counselling in maintaining discipline? Does it effective? * What are the corrective disciplinary management?
II. Review of Related Literature “The Three Dimensions of Discipline”, it is a mean of telling the employees what is expected of them. An organization
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