Wendell Ann Nocido

BM2-A1
Discipline and The Individual’s Responsibilities to the Organization

Discipline is intended to promote a minimum acceptable behavior by employees. Discipline ensures smooth
functioning and helps in creating a healthy business environment.

3 types of discipline

Preventive discipline
preventive discipline is action taken to encourage employees to follow standard and rules so that infraction do
not occur. Prevention is done by making company standard known and understood in advance.

Corrective discipline
Corrective discipline is action that follows infraction of a rule; it seeks to discourage further infractions so that
future acts will be in compliance with standards. Typically, to corrective action is a penalty of some type and is
called disciplinary action

Progressive discipline
Progressive discipline means that there are stronger penalties for repeated offenses. The purpose of this is to
give an employee an opportunity for self-correction before more serious penalties are applied.

The individual’s responsibilities to the organization

The employment relationship is two-way. Without question, the organization has responsibilities to the
individual, as well as the individual has responsibilities to the organization

Organizational citizenship behavior

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a person's voluntary commitment within an organization or
company that is not part of his or her contractual tasks. This is typically categorized as a worker “going above
and beyond,” or “giving their all.” They look at their job as more than just a paycheck and strive to do all
they can to make their work environment run smoothly; even if it has a minimal connection to their current
duties.
Dues-Paying
Dues playing is a special case of individual responsibility to others occurs when employees are expected by
their peers to pay their dues or put their time. Dues-paying consists of the total “costs” that a person’s
group believes an individual should pay for the privilege of full acceptance and continuing membership in
it. This costs might include:
 Willingness to get one’s hands dirty while not complaining about undesirable tasks.
 Showing proper respect to others
 Not acting superior to others
 Performing at an above-average level
 Spending the appropriate amount of time at one’s job

Blowing the Whistle on Unethical Behavior

When an employee discovers unethical, immoral or illegal actions at work, the employee makes a
decision about what to do with this information. Whistle blowing is the term used to define an employee’s
decision to disclose this information to the authority (boss, media or government official).

Mutual trust
Mutual trust is joint faith in the responsibility and actions of the parties involved