Management 3 Human Behavior in an Organization

Assignment

Sleeping While on Duty
Employers have varying views of sleeping while on duty. Some companies
have instituted policies to allow employees to take napping breaks
during the workday in order to improve productivity while others are
strict when dealing with employees who sleep while on duty and use
high-tech means, such as video surveillance, to catch their employees
who may be sleeping on the job. Those who are caught in violation may
face disciplinary action such as suspension or firing.
Some employees sleep, nap, or take a power-nap only during their
allotted break time at work. This may or may not be permitted,
depending on the employer's policies. Some employers may prohibit
sleeping, even during unpaid break time, for various reasons, such as
the unprofessional appearance of a sleeping employee, the need for an
employee to be available during an emergency, or legal regulations.
Employees who may endanger others by sleeping on the job may face more
serious consequences, such as legal sanctions. For example, airline
pilots risk loss of their licenses.
In some industries and work cultures sleeping at work is permitted and
even encouraged. Such work cultures typically have flexible schedules
and variant work loads with extremely demanding periods where
employees feel unable to spend time commuting. In such environments it
is common for employers to provide makeshift sleeping materials for
employees, such as a couch and/or inflatable mattress and blankets.
This practice is particularly common in startups and during political
campaigns. In those work cultures sleeping in the office is seen as
evidence of dedication.

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When an employee sleeps on the job, a managers first task is to
ascertain the reason for the fatigue: Is the worker hung over because
of late-night partying or a second job? Is he suffering from a medical
condition such as narcolepsy or sleep apnea? Does she use prescribed
drugs or undergo medical procedures that leave her tired? Is he
suffering unusual stress or anxiety that makes it hard to sleep?
Perhaps life eventslike a newbornmean the worker is pulling all-
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Once a manager has identified the reason for the sleepiness, the next
task is deciding how best to address itwhether that means discipline,
support for the worker or something else.

Cheating During Examination
Cheating found in grade school tests in Iloilo
ILOILO CITYThe National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has confirmed
that cheating marred an annual examination of public school students
in Iloilo.
Elfren Meneses Jr., NBI Western Visayas director, said the agencys
three-month investigation has shown proof of irregularities in the
National Achievement Test (NAT) conducted last year and the Regional
Achievement Test (RAT) this year in Barotac Nuevo town in Iloilo.
Meneses said among the findings were students having the same correct
and wrong answers in their tests results.
It appears that it was planned, said Meneses Wednesday.
The NAT and RAT are administered annually by the Department of
Education (DepEd) to public elementary and high school students to
determine student proficiency and weaknesses in key subjects including
English, Mathematics and Filipino.
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It is highly improbable that several classrooms of students will have
the same correct and wrong answers, Meneses said.
The pattern of answers of the students also matched an answer guide
that was allegedly used in the cheating. A copy of the answer guide
was furnished the NBI.
In random written tests that the NBI asked some students to take
during the investigation, students gave answers different from the
ones they gave in the NAT tests.
NBI conducted the random tests in at least five schools in Barotac
Nuevo.
Management 3 Human Behavior in an Organization
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The test results corroborated NBI findings that there was systematic
cheating during the two examinations.
The investigation was conducted after Iloilo Provincial Board Member
Gerardo Flores requested the agency to look into the allegations of
Gracia Malazarte, former principal of the Lico-an Elementary School in
Barotac Nuevo.
Malazarte earlier said she came out to expose the cheating because it
was morally unacceptable. She claimed that the cheating allowed the
DepEd Division of Iloilo to boast of topping the 2010 NAT for Grades 3
and 6 pupils and placing second in tests for High School in Western
Visayas.
Several school and DepEd officials denied and denounced Malazartes
allegation but it didnt stop the DepEd from investigating it.
Meneses said NBI agents have sent their report to their head office in
Manila and were waiting for directives.

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The students today need to understand that cheating wont make them
succeed in life. Cheating isnt going to support you life time, one
day itll dump you making you a cheater. They put so much effort in
cheating cant they put the same effort in learning. Nobodies gonna
give a job to a failure. Students today cheat because the things their
made studied in the school are not for them.
While doing cheating a student is cheating many people at a time;
teacher, parents, tutor, society and most of all himself. Now a day
the ratio of cheating in our society is day by day increasing. We
need to control it, their are many solutions. We can solve the problem
of cheating in our society.

Sources:
http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/employeerelations/articles/Pages/Sle
eping-on-the-Job.aspx#sthash.3TqwWrDc.dpuf
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/31467/cheating-found-in-grade-school-
tests-in-iloilo#ixzz32NuudpYP