esign a Progressive Discipline Policy that would be appropriate for most organizations to follow, with consideration to the following measures

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Resource: Avery Foster v. Federal Express Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53779 (E. Dist. Ct. MI)

The issue in the case is whether the company's employment handbook created an implied contract. Avery Foster was terminated for falsifying an employee timecard. He argued that he was told in his initial interview that he would be guaranteed employment at Federal Express as long as he was a good worker and was protected from "just cause" termination. The court found there was good cause to terminate Avery Foster and that the handbook did not create an implied contract of guaranteed employment.

Progressive discipline is an employee disciplinary process that provides a graduated and measured range of responses to employee performance or conduct issues. Critical thinking consideration: Short of termination, could progressive discipline have been effective in this matter?

Given the circumstances and issues that arose in the Avery Foster case, create the following:

  • Design a Progressive Discipline Policy that would be appropriate for most organizations to follow, with consideration to the following measures:
    • Identify the discipline issues to be addressed: attendance, performance, conduct, or a single broad category of non-performance.
    • Determine whether or not the provisions of the policy should permit the company to modify and/or apply the policy in any manner it deems appropriate under the circumstances, including acceleration of steps, exclusion of steps, or repetition of steps.
    • Assess when a supervisor may act independently or needs to seek upper management approval.
    • Explain instructions on when to involve Human Resources.
    • Clarify the role of Human Resources to advise or approve disciplinary action.
    • Determine when a witness should be present.
    • Outline the different sequences and progressive levels of discipline that an employee can receive.
    • Develop rules regarding merit increases in relation to disciplinary action.

Write the policy in the third-person in no more than 1,400 words.

Use headings that appropriately signal the steps and keep your policy organized.

Use a minimum of three different research resources, and identify all sources in your Reference page.

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Progressive Discipline Policy
In the case of Federal Express and Avery Foster, there was no provided contract
illustration what Avery Foster implies. It is this reason that even when Foster is suing the
company, there is not enough justice he can get as he thinks he deserves since that was not
included in the contract during hiring. He was terminated from being employed with a reason for
developing and playing around with false employee timecard. In as much as he argues that he
was promised of being an employee of the company in their initial interview, there are no signed
or written evidence to show that it is true. Therefore, the judge only works with what he has at
hand. The incidents surrounding the case gives guidance to more examples like the relationship
instances between the company and its potential employees. There is a necessity to provide a
code that gives guidance to the employee performance and discipline. Such code is given out on
various levels as the paper progresses.
In this paper, I will provide a customized Progressive Discipline Policy as required, that
which will address attendance issues, discipline issues and performance development. Besides,
the paper will identify whether or not the company to be allowed to modify the policy provision
in meeting their needs as it depends on how the situation is presented. I the eventuality of the
paper, there should be an inclusion of when the supervisors are supposed to seek management
approval of higher levels.
Progressive Discipline
The progressive discipline policy is a system developed for the employees to provide a
response code to the performance issues an...


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