Progressive Discipline
Dawn L. Coffinberry
University of Phoenix
In today’s organizations it is important to have happy employees because they make happy customers and in turn a successful organization. Content employees consistently linked to increased productivity, client satisfaction and effective organizations. To satisfy an employee their work needs to have meaning, be committed, and involved because hierarchy and status in jobs is no longer as important. Yet, what does an organization do when the employee is not meeting production standards, fallowing protocol or violating policies? This paper will look at an incident with Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, as well as going over procedural justice systems, progressive discipline and performance improvement plans.
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Every organization should have policies in place to ensure that the employees know the organization’s mission, values and goals, as well as, define the procedures to be followed. When an issues arises that needs discipline majors they have the policies to fall back on.
Labor and Industries in 2004, found themselves in the public eye, due to some of their own employees violating the agencies rules by the miss use of the states resources. These employees were sending out in appropriate messages of a pornographic nature: sexual activities, parties, multiple partners etc. This all started in November when one of the 2 guys (there were also 4 women), trying to plan an orgy, emailed an invitation to another women outside the group to join in on the festivities and she reported his invitation to HR. The department fired all 6 of the employees, but found many others using the st ...