Disciplinary Reasons

A Disciplinary Reason is defined as a specific situation where employee behavior did not meet company management expectations, and could lead to a sanction.

IPS users form the HR staff may use the Disciplinary Reasons to add, change, list or delete company Disciplinary Reasons.

Adding a new Disciplinary Reason:

Go to Maintenance, select System Settings / Disciplinary Tables, and click on Disciplinary Reasons.
Complete the following fields:
- Disciplinary Reason: Enter a code or abbreviation to identify particular disciplinary reason. Field allows up to 12 characters.
- Description: Enter a sentence or paragraph to reflect the specific situation which is considered as a disciplinary reason according to company local policies. Field allows up to 50 characters.
- Local Description: Enter description in local site language.
- Type of Offense: User must select one of two options:
- - Minor - For offenses that may not require an immediate action, but need to be taken seriously.
  - Major - For severe offenses that could lead to harder sanctions.
Click on Submit. Disciplinary Reason will now be stored in a system table, and will appear in the Disciplinary Actions module.

In addition, user may click on any of the links provided to perform the following actions:

Change - To make modifications to an existing record.
Search - To lookup a specific record.
List - To view a list of all existing Disciplinary Reasons in that particular site (company code).