Chapter 14: Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline

Chapter 14: Respecting Employee Rights and Managing Discipline
Challenges

After reading this chapter, you should be able to deal more effectively with the following challenges:

1.Understand the origins and the scope of employee rights and management rights.
2.Explain why the HR department must balance management's rights and employees' rights when designing employment policies.
3.Understand the master-servant relationship and distinguish it from employment at will.
4.Distinguish between progressive discipline procedures and positive discipline procedures.
5.Apply fair standards to a case of employee misconduct and justify the use of discipline.
6.Manage difficult people who challenge their supervisors with such problems as poor attendance, low performance, insubordination, and substance abuse.
7.Avoid disciplinary actions by taking a proactive and strategic approach to human resource management.