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1.Provide and discuss TWO different discipline and/or discipline situations in detail.
2. In each of the two scenarios that you provide, what led up to the employer's decision? Did everything go well from an HRM perspective? Discuss the process, and also the strengths and drawbacks of the approach taken by the supervisor or HRM representative.
3. From the employee's perspective, was the discipline/discharge viewed as fair? Explain why or why not.
4. Were the employer actions challenged in either of the examples you provide? Please discuss.
Prepare a detailed response that is professionally presented while addressing each question asked. Use HRM terminology. For any research conducted, use internet research that is reliable and gives substantiated information. Please provide referencing in APA format to help make the arguments stronger and a list at the end of the response so that I may look them up.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 2, 2020, 5:04 am ad1c9bdddf
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1. One discipline situation is the termination of the store-keeper in the first factory building. The reason was absenteeism. She did not appear for work without leave for four days in a month and five days more in the next month. She was in charge of the store and because of her absences the store-room had to be broken open at least three times.
The second discipline situation I discuss is the termination of a machine loader for petty theft. The machine loader had been caught stealing some plastic pellets. The theft was first spotted by the supervisor three months ago. Since, the value of the theft was estimated to be $1.50; the machine loader was warned and let off. One month ago again the machine loader was caught stealing some plastic pellets by the same supervisor. This time the value of the pellets was $2.00. The supervisor told the HRM that the loader was a habitual thief and should be terminated immediately.
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A woman walks past a board listing foreign currency rates against the Russian ruble in Moscow, on January 20, 2016
Moscow (AFP) - The ruble hit a historic low on Wednesday as the dollar climbed past the 82 ruble mark for the first time, exceeding the levels seen during the shock plunge of the Russian currency in December 2014.
After a day of relative calm, the ruble resumed its downward spiral as oil prices struck fresh 12-year lows, breaking through the previous record low of 80.1 rubles to the dollar it hit on December 16, 2014.
The ruble also weakened past 90 against the euro, its lowest level since December 2014.
As gas and oil account for more than a half of Russian budget revenues, the collapse in global energy prices has quickly led to pressure on the currency.
The Russian central bank said Wednesday it wasn't considering hiking interest rates to halt the slump in the value of the ruble as it did in December 2014, when it pushed its interest rate to 17 percent in a dramatic midnight move.
"Currently the adjustment of the market value is happening rather smoothly," the Bank of Russia said in a statement, adding the ruble's weakening had an "objective character" because of the country's dependence on energy exports.
But the worsening economic outlook presents a serious challenge for President Vladimir Putin, whose popularity with voters has been based on years of economic stability and relative prosperity.
So far Kremlin strongman has largely made light of the economic crisis and has pointed out that a weaker ruble opens up new opportunities for Russia.
He joked about seeing so many government officials at a meeting on Wednesday, the same day the World Economic Forum of global business and political elites opened in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
"They used to go there with great pleasure but are not going now. Apparently, they don't have enough money for the tickets," he said with a smile.
But the crisis has had a much wider impact than on the travel budget of Russian officials.
Low oil prices have complicated the government's ability to meet its social spending commitments, while the eroding value of the ruble makes it more difficult for ordinary Russians to buy imported food and goods.
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"Even an ordinary person already understands -- if the ruble falls, prices will grow and life will become harder," said Igor Nikolayev, director of the FBK Grant Thornton Institute of Strategic Analysis.
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But analysts say that economic hardships have not yet translated into widespread discontent with the Kremlin and many appear to take it on the chin.
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Words of Wisdom
There must be always remaining in the individual life some place for the singing of angels -- some place for that which in itself is breathlessly beautiful and by an inherent prerogative, throwing all the rest of life into a new and creative relatedness -- something that gathers up in itself all the freshets of experience from drab and commonplace areas of living and glows in one bright light of penetrating beauty and meaning -- then passes. The commonplace is shot through with new glory -- old burdens become lighter, deep and ancient wounds lose much of their old, old hurting. A crown is placed over our heads that for the rest of our lives we are trying to grow tall enough to wear. Despite all the crassness of life, despite all the hardness of life, despite all the harsh discords of life, life is saved by the singing of angels.
Look well to the growing edge. All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born; all around us life is dying and life is being born. The fruit ripens on the tree, the roots are silently at work in the darkness of the earth against a time when there shall be new leaves, fresh blossoms, green fruit. Such is the growing edge. It is the extra breath from the exhausted lung, the one more thing to try when all else has failed, the upward reach of life when weariness closes in upon all endeavor. This is the basis of hope in moments of despair, the incentive to carry on when times are out of joint and men and women have lost their reason, the source of confidence when worlds crash and dreams whiten into ash. Such is the growing edge incarnate. Look well to the growing edge.
As long as we hold a dream in the heart, we cannot lose the significance of living. The dream in the heart is one with the living water welling up from the very spring of Being, nourishing and sustaining all of life. Where there is no dream, the life becomes a swamp, a dreary dead place and, deep within, the heart begins to rot. The dream need not be some overwhelming plan; it need not be a dramatic picture of what must be some day. Such may be important for some; such may be crucial to a particular moment in human history. But it is not in these grand ways that the dream nourishes life. The dream is the quiet persistence in the heart that enables us to ride out the storms of our churning experiences. It is the exciting whisper moving through the aisles of the spirit, answering the monotony of limitless days of dull routine. It is the ever-recurring melody in the midst of the broken harmonies of human conflict. It is the touch of significance which highlights the ordinary experience, the common event. The dream is no outward thing. It does not take its use from the environment in which one moves or functions. It lives in the inward parts, it is deep within, where the issues of life an death are ultimately determined. Keep alive the dream; for as long as we hold a dream in the heart, we cannot lose the significance of living.
We who seek community within our own spirit, who search for it in our experiences with the literal facts of the external world, who make this our formal intent as we seek to bring order out of the chaos of the collective, are not going against life but will be sustained and supported by life. In the conflicts between individuals, between group and group, between nation and nation, the loneliness of the seeker of community is sometimes unendurable. Yet the radical tension between good and evil, as we see it and feel it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life an the nature of existence. There is a spirit in us and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. Always we must know that the contradictions of life are not final or ultimate, we must distinguish between failure and a many-sided awareness so that we will not mistake conformity for harmony, uniformity for synthesis. We must know that for all to be alike is the death of life in all, and yet perceive the harmony that transcends diversities and in which diversity finds its richness and significance.
The more hectic the life of the cities, the more greedy and lustful the heart and mind become, the more we forget the meaning of the twilights, the radiant glowing skies and endless landscapes. But it is not too late. Our cities may yet be saved. There is still time to remember that there is twilight, the creative isthmus joining day with night. It is the time of pause when nature changes her guard. It is the lung of time by which the rhythmic respiration of day and night are guaranteed and sustained. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much darkness, if twilight were not. In the midst of all the madness of the present hour, twilights remain, and will settle down upon the world at the close of day and usher in the nights in endless succession, despite bombs, rockets, and flying death. This is good to remember.
It is my belief that in the Presence of God there is neither male nor female, white nor black, Gentile or Jew, Protestant nor Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, nor Moslem, but a human spirit stripped to the literal substances of itself before God. Wherever man has this sense of the Eternal in his spirit, he hunts for it in his home, in his work, among his friends, in his pleasures and in all the levels of his function. It is my simple faith that this is the kind of universe that sustains that kind of adventure, and what we see dimly now in the churning confusion and chaos of our tempestuous times will some day be the common experience of all the children of men everywhere.
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Probably, the most maltreated word by India political parties is 'secularism'. There is no political party that doesn't call itself secular, though, in retrospect, they need to realise- none is secular in the truest form of the word.
'Secular' means, 'not adhering to religious or spiritual matters' defined by the oxford dictionary. However, all the political parties adhere frequently to religious symbols and idioms as and when it suits their agenda.
The term was first used by the British writer George Jacob Holyoake in 1851 and he explained it: "Secularism is not an argument against Christianity; it advances others. Secularism does not say there is no light or guidance elsewhere, but maintains that there are light and guidance in secular truth, whose conditions and sanctions exist independently."
Putting that in the Indian context – no religion, be it, Hindu, Islam or Sikh, none is against them, in fact, a secular nation should advance the ones left behind due to any reasons. They can be from any religious minority with very marginal in number like Judaism or Christianity or the more unnoticed beliefs of Pantheism, Animism and Totemism, which are extensions of 'nature worship', yet prevalent in the tribal areas of India.
However, the Indian political parties seem to have invented their own customized interpretation of the word, where they merely believe it to be a masquerade to fool the masses obliviousness of their hidden agendas.
The Indian version of 'secularism' is, in fact, 'pseudo-secularism', which means, claiming to be secular though they are actually not so. Here is an additional aspect for the word as well, as being 'secular' in Indian political sense you need to be anti-particular religion or pro-minority.
Pseudo-secularism of Indian political parties
Congress is always in a constant bout to assert BJP as a communal party, as its survival depends on the denouncment of secularism of the opposition.
For Congress to survive, it needs to spread the message of minorities being ill-treated by the BJP and propagate the idea of 'vote for congress' if you don't want BJP to rule, as minorities would, presumably, suffer worse under them.
Congress relies on questioning the sanctity of secularism under the BJP-led NDA government to lure the public to feel safe under their gambit. Any denigration of how they regulate and what they put people, minorities through is enough for them to gain votes. Creating an atmosphere of BJP 'fuelled communal terror' is enough for Congress to gather support.
On the other hand, BJP is no less a part of this pseudo-secular game. The Babri Masjid demolition and the following riots, Gujarat massacre, and their affiliations with the Sangh Parivar are enough salutation to their contribution in the Indian secularism.
The Indian masses never gained anything from either secularism or pseudo-secularism. These words have just become tossing phrases for merely misleading and misguiding the citizens for achieving electoral gains.
Secularism should be a tool to unite instead of creating a divide in the name of threat and misconceptions of reality. All that the Indians require right now is a dictionary which can help them realise the real meaning of the term secularism instead of the falsely portrayed pseudo-secularism by the politically motivated entities.
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Leo Alexander is a songwriter/singer based in NC who was born Darius McKiver. He got his start in 2007 after his father's passing and has been writing and singing ever since. Combining his inspirational upbringings of 90's r&b artists like Brandy, Usher, and Ginuwine with his love and appreciation of new age alternative r&b artists like DΔWN (Dawn Richard), Frank Ocean, FKA Twigs, and Janelle Monae, Leo has created a sound in which he calls "Neon Gumbo" – r&b underlining's blended with multiple elements of genres like pop, EDM, alternative, hip hop, and dance just to name a few.
Since 2007 Leo has released 10 different projects but felt he didn't find his sound until 2013. "Up until my EP LeMar I was making music that I thought was popular. At some point I had a realization where I had to start writing things that meant so much more to me than just a melody. Then with the release of LeMar, Speak For Itself: Vol. II, and Rehab, I realized how many more layers there were to my artistry," he reflects on his career's progression.
In September of 2015 Leo released his debut album Zodiac, a project that he describes as the opening chapter to an autobiography. The album has spawned 3 sonically different singles: the space electronic "OPERATION Z"; the r&b dreamlike "Eyes Wide Open"; and the hypersexual hip hop driven "Tell Me". He followed up in February of 2016 with an EP entitled One Hell of a Ride which he calls the beautiful remains of an ugly scar. The next move for him is collaborating with different artists and producers all across the music spectrum. He's also in the works of a follow up EP called One Hell of a Ride: ROSE due later in the year.
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Other activities you may enjoy include:
- Walking the labyrinth
- Strolling through the wooded trails and pastures
- Picnicking outside
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Biz Travel Horror Stories Inspire Checklist For Travellers
by Martha Chapman
More and more travel management companies are focusing on "duty of care" – the responsibility corporations must take when they send their employees out to far flung (and not even that far flung) destinations. This concept includes, for example, knowing where they are at all times, ensuring they adhere to corporate travel policy and how to keep in touch in the event of an emergency.
However, a recent presentation by Mark Lalonde, director of Xpera Risk Mitigation at the Global Business Travel Association's annual Canadian conference, provided a useful checklist for corporate travellers themselves.
In a speech peppered with anecdotes about fake prescription pills in Southeast Asia, Brazilian cities shut-down for multi-day festivals and the joys (none) of staying in a Sudanese hotel room that turned out to be a shipping container, Lalonde delivered some great travel tips for corporate travellers. They included:
"When something goes very wrong, invariably it will be on a weekend or at 3 a.m.," he commented. 24 hour travel agency service is essential.
Whether that traveller is in Vancouver or Vietnam, he or she may bless you for sharing Lalonde's wisdom.


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One of the oldest symbols of Miami. The Freedom Tower was the place where Cubans could have their visas in the 1960s. Today it is a museum and is part of the US National Register of Historic Places.
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