Discipline in Organizations: A Field Study

摘要

Hourly employees (N=526) working in a refinery were surveyed about their perceptions of their immediate supervisor's disciplinary behavior as well as the kinds of factors supervisors take into account when applying discipline. Other perceptions concerning other supervisors' use of discipline, and evaluation of the disciplinary system as a whole were elicited. Factor analytic and correlational procedures were explored to: Determine the kinds of disciplinary factors which are perceived as operating in the organizations; Determine the relationships between these disciplinary factors and other employee variables such as satisfaction with supervisor, disciplinary history, grievances and so forth, and Determine the attributions that supervisor are perceived as forming within the disciplinary process and determine the relationships between these types of attributions and selected employee variables. Results indicated several reliable and stylistic supervisory disciplinary factors could be identified which showed high relationships with supervisory satisfaction and the evaluation of the organizational disciplinary program but low correlations with more distant and objective criteria of disciplinary history and grievances.