Q. Explain Principals of disciplinary action?
Ddisciplinary action may have serious if they are considered unjust or fair and, therefore, are not acceptable to employees as well as their unions. The most important principals to be observed in the maintenance of discipline have been outlined by Yoder, Heneman, Turnbull and Harold Stone. These are:
1. As far as possible, all rules to the company should be framed in consultation with the representatives of employees.
2. The rules that framed should be evaluated at a frequent intervals regularly to ensure that they continue to be appropriate sensible and useful
3. Rules should vary with the changes in the working conditions of various employees.
4. Rules should be uniformly enforced in order to avoid discrimination.
5. Penalties for any violation of any rule should be clearly stated in advance.
6. A disciplinary action must satisfy the condition of the natural justice. So a disciplinary action involving some kind of penalty should be preventive rather than punitive.
7. Assessment of penalties deserves through and thoughtful consideration and therefore, disciplinary action should not preventive rather than punitive.
8. Assessment if violations of a particular rule are fairly frequent, the circumstances surroundings them should be carefully investigated and studied in order to discover the cause or causes of such violations.
9. Some offenders would almost certainly violate rules more often than others. These cases should be carefully considered so that their causes may be discovered.
10. Definite and precise provisions for the appeal and review for all disciplinary actions should be expressly mentioned in the employee's handbook or collective agreements.