Progressive Discipline Versus Summary Termination

Franklin Ramsoomair*, Lawrence Saunders**
*Associate Professor, School of Business And Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5.
**Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Periodicity:September - November'2006
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jmgt.1.2.392

Abstract

Approaches to discipline and termination range from nurturing and progressive discipline, to dismissal. Managers need to adjust this view. They ought to have a strategy in place that is based on their company’s unique circumstances and that is supported by decision making that has the long term health of the company as the primary objective.

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Franklin Ramsoomair and Lawrence Saunders (2006). Progressive Discipline Versus Summary Termination. i-manager’s Journal on Management, 1(2), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.26634/jmgt.1.2.392

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