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Standing Orders & Code of Discipline Issues Related To The Company Productivity

The document discusses issues related to employee discipline and productivity at a cement manufacturing company. Two workers were fired by the personnel director for violating company norms, creating an unhealthy work environment. This led to decreased worker cooperation, lower productivity, and losses for the company. Suggestions include clearly communicating rules to employees, taking a more transformational leadership approach, consistently enforcing discipline policies through documented warnings and other measures, and investigating incidents thoroughly before taking punitive actions. As personnel director, the author would not have fired the workers but given verbal warnings instead, and counseled the strict plant manager on avoiding one-sided decisions and considering future impacts. An effective organization requires good discipline while prioritizing employee well-being and a collaborative work atmosphere

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Standing Orders & Code of Discipline Issues Related To The Company Productivity

The document discusses issues related to employee discipline and productivity at a cement manufacturing company. Two workers were fired by the personnel director for violating company norms, creating an unhealthy work environment. This led to decreased worker cooperation, lower productivity, and losses for the company. Suggestions include clearly communicating rules to employees, taking a more transformational leadership approach, consistently enforcing discipline policies through documented warnings and other measures, and investigating incidents thoroughly before taking punitive actions. As personnel director, the author would not have fired the workers but given verbal warnings instead, and counseled the strict plant manager on avoiding one-sided decisions and considering future impacts. An effective organization requires good discipline while prioritizing employee well-being and a collaborative work atmosphere

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Standing Orders & Code of Discipline issues related to the

Company Productivity
INTRODUCTION: Matrix manufacturing company, a cement company, in which two of
the workers has been handed over the notice of discharge by the personnel director of the
compaby for the direct violation of the company norms. Resulting in an un healthy environment
leading to the non-cooperation of workers, loss in productivity and leading to the downfall o the
productivity of the company in the market.
PROBLEM STATEMENT: The problem statement of the case study revolves around the
code of conduct, discipline issues, employee welfare and the organization productivity.
MAJOR FACTS: The major facts in the case are:
a) Plant manager being a strict disciplinarian.
b) Neglect of rules related to company norms by the discharged workers.
c) The company has the policy of giving exception to the workers in the case of family
member’s health issues.
d) Discharged Workers having good work record
e) Disgruntlement and declination of cooperation among the other workers.
f) Lack of coordination among the employees of the departments.
g) Lack of uniformity in the opinions of the heads of the departments of the organization.
h) Discharging the valuable assets of the company leading to the impact on the other
departments leading to loss of customers
i) Lack of work clarity leading to the delay of the work
j) Delay in finding the right replacements for the discharged workers.
MINO FACTS: The minor facts in the case are:
a) Dissatisfaction among the employee group
b) Conflict/ devoid of opinions among the employees
c) Poor employer-employee relations
d) Job Insecurity
e) Breaking the protocol/scalar chain of the decision making system.
f) Power Conflict issues between the heads of the departments.
SUGGESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS: The suggestions /recommendations
suitable for this case study are:
1. Clearly communicating the rules to the employees.
2. Change of supervisory approach by the plant manager to be mot more an autocratic
leader, but needs to be more a transformational leader irrespective of positions.
3. Emphasis to be on the implementation and consistency of the enforcement of rules.
4. Documentation and keeping track of all disciplinary actions taken
5. Documentation should be done without any prejudice.
6. Rationalization of taking action depending on the situations.
7. Giving a chance to the employees to respond
8. Follow through on the Defined Disciplinary Strategy in the following ways:
a) Oral warning to the employees
b) Written Statement given to the HR Department
c) Giving of a memo as per the level of intensity of the situation
d) Punishing them with fine.
e) Showing on their pay cut.
f) Demoting their responsibilities and.
g) Suspending the employees and communicating to the other employees
QUESTIONS:
(a) Identify the core issues in the case
A. The Core issues in the case are as follows:
1. Poor relationships of the plant manager and his employees because of his excessive
emphasis on the rules/norms of the company.
2. Jealousness of the plant manger on the work and performance etiquette of the discharged
workers.
3. Lack of human concern of the plant manager for the discharged workers.
4. Lack of suture vision and thinking by the plant manager about the foreseen circumstances
that the organization faces.
5. Plant manager’s one sided decision causing productivity loss to the company.
6. Lack of directionality in taking decisions by the top fraternity or top level of the
organization.
7. Irreplaceable skill vacancy created because of discharged workers.
(b) Place yourself in the position of the Personnel Director. Which of the following courses
of action would you have chosen and why?
A. If I place in the position of the Personnel Director, I would not discharge either of them and I
would make a thorough investigation and would here the views of the employees and the plant
manager and the following measures would be taken.
1. Coming to the employees rather than discharging them a verbal counseling will be given
and issue them a memo for not to repeat of the same further.
2. Coming to the plant manager of being one-sided decision taker in nature, I would explain
him what would be the future unforeseen situations and explain him about the
consequences that the company has to go through with their loss.
CONCLUSION: A successful organization requires a good discipline approach in order to
bring the effectiveness in the employee as well as for the organization with a hygiene work
atmosphere. Any organization should emphasize more on quality rather than the quantity with a
sight of humanistic element in nature which makes the employee to feel the organization as a
second home.

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