To Punish or Not to Punish? Managing Human Resources through ″Positive Discipline″

Traditional disciplinary procedures place too much emphasis on punishment. A system of “positive discipline” is described that is performance based and allows individual employees the opportunity, through a day′s paid absence, to make their own decisions about work problems – identified by the employer but discussed in terms of positive changes in behaviour or practice.

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Year of publication:	1990
Authors:	Osigweh, Chimezie A.B. ; Hutchison, William R.
Published in:	Employee Relations. - MCB UP Ltd, ISSN 1758-7069, ZDB-ID 2031891-1. - Vol. 12.1990, 3, p. 27-32
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Subject:	Employees \| Discipline \| Industrial relations \| Human resource management

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	research-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1108/01425459010144082 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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