Effective Performance & Discipline Management

Course Overview:

This workshop has been designed to enable delegates to initiate proper disciplinary proceedings and to administer disciplinary principles in a fair and consistent manner. It will lead delegates through the required procedural and substantive aspects pertaining to disciplinary action principles as contained in the Labour Relations Act.

The course will enable learners to:

• List the rights and duties of the emploer and employee in the employment relationship.
• Name and explain particular types of disciplinary offences.
• Prepare, investigate and formulate the appropriate charges for any given disciplinary hearing.
• Explain the role of the initiator and chairperson at a disciplinary hearing. List the steps and procedures that should be followed in a disciplinary hearing.
• Explain what mitigating and aggravating circumstances should be considered in any disciplinary finding.
• Explain the substantive as well as procedural aspects relating to dismissal for misconduct.
• Conduct a process of handling employee poor work performance.
• Follow a set of guidelines on actions to be taken should an employee fail to meet performance goals or objectives due to incompetence (poor work performance).