CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
In any organization or a company, there is always a process of discipline in order to check the activities of employees (workers) in that organization. In other words staff discipline in an organization means the controlling of staff by management. No organization can survive without putting in place disciplinary measures, as this will bring about effective and efficient discharge of responsibilities by workers of an organization. This is no small measures will bring about the achievement of the set organization goals.
However, the issue of staff discipline cannot be over emphasized without vividly explaining the concept of personnel management or human resource management and the term staff. According to Mullins (1999) defines human resource management as “resource centered directly mainly at management need for human resource to be provided and deployed. It involves planning, monitoring and control rather than meditation. Also Abiri (unpublished) defines personal management “as the one that involves the planning, control and coordination of human resources. Staff could be referred to as the employees working in an organization. They are the personal that carry out the day-to-day routine job to see that the organization achieves its goal and objectives.
Worth mentioning here is human resource planning. It is guide obvious that no organization can achieve its target goal without the adequate planning of its staff. According to Mullins (1999) defines it as a strategy for the requisition, utilization, improvement and retention of enterprise human resource. In due respect of the above relevant definition of concept of staff discipline no organization or enterprise can survive if its employees or staff is grossly indiscipline. Indiscipline acts such as lateness to work or absenteeism, shoddy discharge of responsibility e.t.c. If all these are common in an organization, the achievement of its goals and objectives becomes a difficult task to attain.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
The following are the problem intended to solve for in this research work.
i. Causes of absenteeism
ii. Causes of late coming to work
iii. The appropriate discipline measures to those who falls victims to company rules and regulations.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Staff discipline is very important in the survival of an organization since high productivity of an organization totally depends on it. This project is aimed at the following.
- To verify if there is a significant relationship between staff discipline and progressiveness of an organization.
- To identify the measures adopted by corporate managers/management to instill or commands discipline on staff.
To identify how staff’s discipline affects organization’s productivity.
