Progressive Discipline-Restaurant

Good management stresses a positive approach in the administration of rules and in maintaining an effective work force. Permissiveness, laxness and negligence on the part of supervision to apply rules may be license for some to take advantage of the situation. 1.2.1 This type of behavior by supervisors (permissiveness) is serious because it contributes to low morale and reduced productivity. The cost of this behavior is very high; significantly impacting company profits. (Unfortunately, few companies make any attempt to measure these factors in dollar terms.) 1.2.2 On the other hand, when employees understand and accept rules which they consider sensible and fair, they will become built-in regulators of employee conduct and reduce the negative impact of counter-productive behavior at ABC