Constructive programme of discipline:
Some of the employees, for various reasons, deviate from the expected standards of behaviour. Hence, it becomes essential to have constructive programme of discipline to deal with these violations.
According to the Wilkins, Dodd, Mc. Naughton and Prasow, a constructive programme of discipline to promote harmonious industrial relations should be developed around the following essential elements:
1. Formulation of a set of clear ad reasonable rules carefully published and administered.
2. Impartial enforcement of these rules by means of announced warnings and penalties, corrective in purpose, proportionate and uniform in their application.
3. Supervisory leadership that is uniformed on disciplinary rules and producers. But the firm in the handling of disciplinary matters, and itself, a good example for employee behaviour.
4. An impartial and uniform procedure for investigation of apparent an infraction, whose procedure is subject to review by higher levels of management and includes a system of appeal against disciplinary decisions that are considered unjust.