Additional Case 14.2 Gloria, an Employee at Hamilton Resources, Which Is a Unionized

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Additional Case 14.2
Gloria, an employee at Hamilton Resources, which is a unionized company, has performance and absenteeism problems. Gloria's manager, Dean, wants to fire her immediately. As the HR manager at Hamilton, you explain to Dean that he needs to try to improve the employee's performance first and save termination as a last resort.
Sometime later, the CEO asks you to review and update the firm's employee discipline process. He wants to give employees as much responsibility for their own performance improvement as possible. He is also willing to invest in management training to ensure the best and most fair process. As HR manager, you will be responsible for training managers on the new discipline process.
-Refer to Additional Case 14.2.During the process of training managers,you should most likely make which of the following statements to ensure that they discipline fairly?

• A) Require peer review before taking any disciplinary action.
• B) Collect enough convincing evidence to justify any disciplinary action.
• C) Limit communication with the disciplined employee to avoid legal issues.
• D) Consider mitigating circumstances in all cases of gross misconduct by employees.

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