HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wrongful Dismissal, Severance Package, Punitive Damages

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Voluntary turnover: decision made by employee quit reirement resignaion. Involuntary turnover: decision made by employer dismissal layof. Individual reasons for voluntary turnover: low organizaional commitment, low role clarity, low tenure, low job saisfacion. Group/organizaional reasons for voluntary turnover: subopimal hiring pracices, diicult managerial style, lack of recogniion, lack of compeiive compensaion systems, toxic workplace environments. Involuntary turnover reasons for involuntary turnover: unacceptable job performance, economic/inancial pressures, new strategic direcion should be fair, ater all reasonable steps taken to rehabilitate employment relaionship. 1. rules and regulaions: clear expectaions of acceptable behaviour, progressive discipline, warning (oral and/or writen), suspension, terminaion, appeals process, allow employee to present case, make sure that the process is done fairly and smoothly. Due process rights to know job expectaions and consequences of not meeing them fair discipline based on facts, right to quesions facts and to present defence appeal any management decision about discipline progressive discipline. How to manage an employee disciplinary situaion (video)