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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?

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Negotiable Document of Title

A negotiable document of title represents control or ownership of goods that are in transit or storage and can be transferred by endorsement or delivery to effect the transfer of goods it covers.

Direct Institutional Discrimination

Occurs when an institution employs policies or practices that are discriminatory against a person or group.

Indirect Institutional Discrimination

When individuals are treated differently based on an unlawful criterion (physical disability, cultural origin, age, gender, religion), even though these actions were never intended to be discriminatory.

Discriminatory Policies

Practices or directives that result in unfair treatment of individuals or groups based on specific characteristics, such as race, age, or gender.