BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Discipline
- standards of required behavior or performance. Good practice requires an organization to establish a disciplinary procedure in order to ensure just decisions. A disciplinary procedure should consist of a formal system of documented warnings and hearings, with rights of representation and appeal at each stage.
Wiktionary Definition for: Discipline
- #controlled behaviour; self-control
- #enforced compliance or control
- #a systematic method of obtaining obedience
- #a state of order based on submission to authority
- #punishment intended to train
- #a set of rules regulating behaviour
- #a specific branch or knowledge or learning
- #flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification
- #a category in which a certain sport belongs, or a sub-category of said sport.
- #to train someone by instruction and practice
- #to teach someone to obey authority
- #to punish someone in order to gain control
- #to impose order on someone
Additional Resources
- Discipline (Progressive Discipline)
- Progressive discipline is a process for dealing with job-related behavior that does not meet expected and communicated performance standards. The primary purpose for progressive discipline is to assist the employee to understand that a performance problem or opportunity for improvement exists. The process features increasingly formal efforts to provide feedback...
- White papers
- SHANGHAI MOBILE, UNICOM STOP PRICE WAR BY SELF-DISCIPLINE
- AsiaInfo Services 03-04-2005 Shanghai Mobile, Unicom Stop Price War by Self-discipline SHANGHAI, Mar 04, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Shanghai Mobile and Shanghai Unicom signed self-discipline agreement on February 28, which was a signal showi AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2005-03-04
- Dynamic Depositor Discipline in U.S. Banks
- This paper investigates the presence of depositor discipline in the U.S. banking sector. It tests whether depositors penalize discipline banks for poor performance by withdrawing their uninsured deposits. While focusing on the movements in uninsured deposits, it also accounts for the possibility that banks may be forced to pay a...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Best of HBR on Innovation: One Part Inspiration, Two Parts Discipline
- "HBR OnPoint collections include an overview and 3 full-text HBR articles, each with a synopsis and annotated bibliography. Flashes of genius, showers of brilliant ideas--it's intriguing to imagine that these are all your company needs to create blockbuster products and services. True, successful innovation does require inspiration. But that's barely...
- Case studies 2004-05-01
- Subordinated Debt and the Quality of Market Discipline in Banking
- Subordinated debt is compared to common equity as a source of market discipline in banking. The debt issued by a bank is modeled as a contingent claim on the bank's assets. The model highlights the effects of moral hazard and market discipline, and shows how market pricing of subordinated-debt transforms...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Time Management Technique: Lack Of Self Discipline Leads To Procrastination
- It's not your fault you lack self-discipline. This time management technique will help you to understand why you lack self-discipline, and how it's not your fault but rather a mismatch between who you are and what you're being asked to do. Procrastination caused by lack of self-discipline is a warning...
- White papers 2007-10-21
- Time Management Technique: Lack Of Self-Discipline Leads To Procrastination
- It's not your fault you lack self-discipline. This time management technique will help you to understand why you lack self-discipline, and how it's not your fault but rather a mismatch between who you are and what you're being asked to do. Procrastination caused by lack of self-discipline is a warning...
- White papers 2007-11-16
- U.S. AIR FORCE: DOD directs more uniformity, clarity in policies on good order, discipline
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 July 1998-U.S. AIR FORCE: DOD directs more uniformity, clarity in policies on good order, discipline C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:300798 Good order and discipline will be enforced more uniformly throughout the military, based on new Department of Defense guidelines. Secretary of Defense...
- Research articles 1998-07-30
- THE WHITE HOUSE: President Clinton urges fiscal di discipline and debt reduction.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 August 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- President Clinton urges fiscal discipline and debt reduction C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040899 Today in the Rose Garden, President Clinton will urge Congress to maintain the fiscal discipline that...
- Research articles 1999-08-06
- Industrial discipline in the Canadian federal jurisdiction
- With the enactment of statutory laws governing dismissal for nonunionized workers in Canada, a key issue for inquiry is what approach adjudicators acting under this legislation have adopted with respect to industrial discipline. Most nonunionized workers in Canada are governed by the common law legal regime where, generally, the concept...
- Research articles 1993-01-01
- Is Progressive Discipline Useless?
- The Find: Rather than going through the lengthy process of progressive discipline with an underachieving employee, better to simply fire those not meeting expectations straight away, argues ones HR pro. The Source: The very opinionated Punk Rock HR blog. The Takeaway: You have an...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Underwriting discipline seen as critical to reinsurers' recovery. (Cover Story).(Statistical Data Included)
- Underwriting discipline" is the mantra being chanted by global reinsurance executives, who say that such discipline must be maintained because a sustained reinsurance turnaround is essential to secure the industry's financial future. "We have been through a horrible, horrible time as an industry ...
- Research articles 2002-09-02
- Market Discipline in Banking Reconsidered: The Roles of Deposit Insurance Reform, Funding Manager Decisions and Bond Market Liquidity
- This paper demonstrates that the risk sensitivity of a banking organization's subordinated debt yield spreads may understate the potential for market discipline in some periods and overstate in others because such spreads contain liquidity premiums that are driven, in part, by the risk-sensitivity of funding manager decisions. In addition, it...
- White papers 2002-01-10
- The Discipline of Virtual Teams
- Virtual teaming is about engendering a feeling of togetherness, teamwork, and empowerment. Instead, team performance requires adherence to a simple set of disciplined behaviors that we call "team basics." When applied to appropriate performance challenges, that discipline produces results that are clearly superior to what small groups can obtain...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- The Role Of Subordinated Debt In Market Discipline - The Case Of Emerging Markets
- This article evaluates the potential role of mandatory subordinated debt MSD in enhancing market discipline in emerging markets. The conceptual merits and key preconditions of MSD are first reviewed. Then the extent to which emerging market satisfies these pre-conditioned--among them the monitor ability of bank assets, the presence of non-bank...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Banking Crises, Deposit Insurance, and Market Discipline: Lessons From the Asian Crises
- This paper investigates the effectiveness of market discipline by depositors during the period of 1992-2002 in the four crisis-hit Asian countries: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. In Indonesia, the crises first weakened and then strengthened market, which is consistent with the wake-up-call effect found for the Latin American crisis-hit countries....
- White papers 2005-10-27
- An Innovation Discipline Model
- Innovation is about doing things differently and doing different things. It fails if costs exceed returns over time. It succeeds if returns exceed costs in amounts sufficient to reward shareholders. Innovation failure comes from both errors of commission and omission. Doblin's Innovation Discipline Model provides a framework for categorizing innovation...
- White papers 2006-07-19
- U.K. code may limitdrug-use response; Only unsafe workers may face discipline.(new legislation proposition)(Brief Article)
- LONDON--Employers may lose the right to discipline employees who fail drug tests for marijuana under new proposals put forward by the United Kingdom's commissioner for the protection of privacy. A draft code of practice for worker privacy, which wa LONDON--Employers may lose the right...
- Research articles 2000-10-30
- Walking the walk on underwriting discipline: numbers show long-term underwriting profits best at smaller-focused carriers.(NU data insights: profitability)
- UNDERWRITING DISCIPLINE--it's a phrase that's been repeated hundreds of times in the last three years. But which property-casualty companies really have it? And which have been able to garner profits over the long term--reporting record underwriting UNDERWRITING DISCIPLINE--it's a phrase that's been repeated hundreds...
- Research articles 2005-01-24
- Ns, Unions Forge New Discipline Policy - Norfolk Southern Corp - Brief Article
- The United Transportation Union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and Norfolk Southern have agreed to a new discipline policy called START System Teamwork and Responsibility Training, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2000. The new policy "is intended to bring NS's antiquated discipline policy in line with those now in operation...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
