Management Training:
Management Skills and Discipline
The term "discipline" has a bad connotation. No one likes to be disciplined, and many people find it uncomfortable to give discipline. Perhaps this reticence comes from the idea that in disciplining someone is going to get punished, or to a lesser degree, embarrassed. It is something that almost everyone will do almost anything to avoid. How did discipline get the reputation of being so horrible?
Part of the management coaching that should occur when teaching employees or teams of employees is that discipline is meant to correct problems or mistakes that occur so that the correct work is accomplished. It can be a time to make sure the employee knows the correct procedure and how not to make the mistake again. This could be a retraining or simply taking the time to make sure the employee understands. Though this will probably be recorded that this occurred that can be explained that this is done to remind the supervisor who has completed an area of training.
Even when an infraction continues and discipline is going further, an employee at this time needs to understand that repeating an infraction is the employee deciding to get discipline. The management has no choice but to correct the problem and both need to know that it is up to each to have correction occur. In this way it is not the supervisor aganst the employee but instead both have responsibility. Both management and employee have to demonstrate that they care about the job.
My point is that discipline is to be used to keep people on track, to train and re-train, and to have all succeed, Only when an employee decides to defy rather than grow does it become a time when it must be used relieve the employee of employment. Yet this must never be a threat but instead a last resort. The employee actually is the one that decides if this will occur or not.
Liz Cosline:
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