Author Question: Why is it better for a manager to try to work with a habitually tardy employee rather than to punish ... (Read 22 times)

bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Aug 21, 2018

Why is it better for a manager to try to work with a habitually tardy employee rather than to punish the worker?
a. Productivity is usually not affected because there are other workers to pick up the slack.
b. The employee is trained to do a job and is an asset to the work group.
c. The lateness affects the tardy worker's pay and no one else's pay.
d. There may be a legitimate reason for the employee's habitual tardiness.

Question 2

The purpose of discipline is:
a. to punish an individual who has done something wrong.
b. to allow the manager to use coercive power whenever necessary.
c. to encourage a worker to replace an inappropriate behavior with an appropriate behavior.
d. to improve employees' behavior, but not the work environment.