Discipline: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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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...
Tags: Discipline, Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers
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...
Tags: Bank of Canada, Canada, M., punishment, suspension, United, worker
Research articles 1993-01-01
In the final analysis
"At the core of each discipline, there develops a consensus of the learned .... On the frontier of the discipline, there is a lot of disagreement." -E.D. Hirsch, Jr. The frontier of a discipline; now, that's where the fun is-knowledgeable debate, impassioned exchanges, fiery discourse, and occasional hair...
Tags: analysis, CAREER, Disagreement, frontier, Government, NASA, National Science Foundation
Research articles 2002-06-01
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...
Tags: IKnowNow, Time Management, Productivity
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...
Tags: IKnowNow, Time Management, Productivity
White papers 2007-11-16
The Role of Six Sigma Techniques in Project Portfolio Management
Over the past several years, there has been convergence of the Project Management and Six Sigma disciplines to measure and improve the process of running the business. Concurrent with the discipline implementation is an evolution of tools as well as a maturation of the organization's process. The end result is...
Tags: Project Portfolio Management, CPO Media, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers
Discipline Will Get You That Job
There are many facets of life that require discipline; getting up every morning to go to work, paying your bills, putting gas in your car and countless other things. However, many people consider looking for a new job as a hassle that can be addressed whenever the mood strikes them....
Tags: Job, JobSnake, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
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...
Tags: Deposit, Depositor, Financial Services, Banking, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2003-11-01
Firing and Disciplining Employees
This is a discussion of how to conduct employee discipline including when to discipline, the steps in progressive discipline, and the conduct of an investigation. Learn about the dangers of not disciplining employees and the importance of fairness. Any employee who is not contributing to the organization and it goals...
Tags: Firing, Employee, Quality, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2000-06-30
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...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, president, prosperity, Taxes, White House
Research articles 1999-08-06
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...
Tags: Norfolk Southern Corp.
Research articles 1999-12-01
Mortgage lenders agree to discipline themselves.
Aug 26, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Mortgage Industry Association of Australasia MIAA has increased its power to discipline members. The CEO of the MIAA, Phil Naylor, said this was not an attempt to fend off regulation, but rather ...
Tags: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government, Regulations, Strategy
Research articles 2003-08-26
Seven Ways To Say, No
A common remedy for improving your time management is to develop the ability of saying, "NO." Since it is easier to recommend than to do, this paper gives some tips on how to do it. Once you have made your decision to say, "NO" more often, your commitment is now...
Tags: Self-discipline, Time Management, Productivity
White papers 2008-01-01
-THE WHITE HOUSE: Creating safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools.
M2 PRESSWIRE-20 October 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Creating safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:151098 Many of our nations schools report difficulties with maintaining order and discipline. In the 1996-97 school year, 41...
Tags: violence, White House
Research articles 1998-10-20
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...
Tags: Bank, Banking, Financial Services
White papers 2001-05-01
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...
Tags: Air Force, Cohen, conduct, training, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 1998-07-30
Discipline: The Most Dreaded Management Task
Discipline that is administered in stages gives the employee ample opportunity to turn his or her performance around. It also helps maintain the morale of other staff members who may be watching the situation unfold: It is demotivating to see the poor performance or behavior of others ignored, yet comforting...
Tags: HR.com, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2002-10-04
Managing a Mutual Fund Portfolio
This article is about managing one mutual fund portfolio. The key to portfolio management is to have a discipline that you adhere to. The most successful money mangers in the world are successful because they have a discipline to manage money. Believe it or not it has less to do...
Tags: Mutual Fund, Investopedia, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
White papers 2002-08-28
Mixing discipline with Disney - Walt Disney Co - Dayton Hudson Corp. Target Stores; Growth Retailer of the '90s
Mixing Discipline With Disney
Tags: Disney Corp., The Walt Disney Co.
Research articles 1990-09-17
ECB chief calls for discipline in comments on euro exchange rate
VIENNA AFP — European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet called Thursday for the utmost discipline on the part of eurozone politicians when commenting on the current strength of the euro. "Verbal discipline is very, very important on this question," Trichet told a news conference here. His comments were...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, FINANCE, president
Research articles 2007-10-04
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