Consider the following situation: when an employee violates a rule, the manager issues an oral reminder. repetition brings a written reminder, and the third violation results in the worker having to take one, two, or three days off (with pay) to think about the situation. during the first two steps, the manager tries to encourage the employee to solve the problem. if the third step is taken, upon the worker's return, the worker and the supervisor meet to agree that the employee will not violate a rule again or the employee will leave the firm. what form of disciplinary action is being taken?

a) disciplinary action without punishment
b) hot stove approach
c) progressive disciplinary action
d) progressive discipline

The answer to this question is A: disciplinary action without punishment

Explanation:

In every organisation there are set rules and regulations that must be followed by all the employees and even the managements themselves. However when this rules and regulations are broken there is bound to be punishment of disciplinary measures must be taken.

There are various disciplinary measures: these include  oral warning, written communication, suspension, etc. all these might gain short term compliance but not the long term cooperation that the employers wants. Therefore the use of disciplinary actions without punishment or non - punitive discipline  is advised to be used in other to get full cooperation of the employees and acceptance of the rules.

Disciplinary actions without punishment usually involves the employer having to first give an oral warning to the employee and then if the problem persist give a written form of warning stating why the employee should desist from such act. However, if these two steps yield no result the employer should give the employee a day or two days leave with pay and encourage such employee to reflect on such attitude and ensure that such is not repeated.

The benefit of this type of type of disciplinary action is that

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