EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE

Importance for organisation

PRESENTED BY
Adyasha Mohanty
J.Rojalin
Avilash pattnaik
Shweta satpathy
Pritisha Priyadarshini
G.Prachi souman
Kiran kumar sahoo
Sunil kumar patro
Somyashree lenka
WHAT IS EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE ?

 Discipline means behaving in a right and desired manner.

 It is the backbone of healthy industrial relation ,the

promotion and maintenance of employee discipline is
essential for smooth functioning of an organization.

 Discipline is employee self-control which prompts him to

willingly co-operate with the organisational standards ,rules
and objective.
 Discipline comes with restraint and
responsibility.

 According to Jim Rohn, “ Discipline is a bridge

between Goals and Accomplishment”.

 According to Robbins discipline refers to a, “condition in

the organisation when employees conduct themselves in
accordance with the organisational rules and standards of
acceptable behaviour “.
Nature of employee discipline
 Discipline is self control.

 It is a determinative willingness.

 It is a positive approach.

 It is negative approach.

 It is punitive approach.
It help to achieve-
To accept responsibility and receive direction.

To develop sense of cooperation and integrity in spite of

diverse views and opinions .

 to make employees tolerant .

To make good industrial relation

To build us high moral among employees.

To increase productivity in an organisation.

To achieve general willingness for accepting rules ,regulationband

procedures of organisatioin from its employees so that
organisation objective can be accomplished.

Toin calculate the feeling of mutual respect.

PRINCIPLE FOR MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE
DISCIPLINE:-
• Knowledge of rules.
• Review and revision.
• Self discipline.

• Well defined procedure.

• punishment.
Why organisation need disciplinary measures-:
 it regulate misconduct.

• Minor misconduct- absenteeism, late coming, theft ,

smoking ,provide wrong information, etc.

• Major misconduct- false allegation, sexual abusement, not

follow safety rule, etc .
 Discipline lead to improve performance .

 Behaviour of employee -
• Expected behaviour + accepted
behaviour =employees behaviour.

• Employee behaviour depends upon types of

disciplinary policies of the organisation.
Workplace discipline.

 To avoid repetition-
If an employee once commit a mistake and no
action or punishment is made for him then he will commit
that mistake another time and his peers also commit that
type of mistake . So there is need for strict disciplinary
policy in the organisation
IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE DISCIPLINE:

Create awareness

 Remove organisation problems

Good employment relationship

Improve efficiency
 Positive employee attitude

 High morale

Improve performance
 Ensure better teamwork

Ensure higher productivity and quantity

 Develop sense of belongingness

CAUSES OF EMPLOYEE INDISCIPLINE-

 Unfair labour practices.

 Absence of effective leadership.

Communication barriers.

Varying disciplinary measures.

 Defective supervision.

 Victimisation.

 Inadequate attention to personal

problems.

Absence of code of conduct..

 Case study 1-
An employee works in one of the top accounting firms
in the world. The professional is a lateral hire with
prior experience yet as begin working in the firm.
They have tiffs with their reporting manager .So much
so that just to ease up the anger . The employee hurls
abuses through skype while managers on leave .

The manager does receive the message

unknowingly. What happened next?
Case study -2
A client has receiving concerns from numerous employees
relating to a colleague’s inappropriate behaviour on the shop
floor .
The initial concerns related to events impacting on the effective
running of the machinery , however suspicions were growing
about why these events were happening , which included
potential sabotage, racial abuse and victimisation towards a
work colleague .How does an organisation deal with this?
Concluding thoughts-:

Discipline is important to business success and each employer

wants to maintain discipline at workplace. All disciplinary
actions should be documented in a factual, non-judgemental
way.
Employer can use the grievance procedure to resolve conflicts
with management .