Answer to Question #98130 in Management for Divya

Question

Arjan is an employee who is never on time for work or meetings. He has been issued several warning memos but in vain. The management is not able to take stringent action against him as he is very good at his work and is one of the top performers. As his reporting authority you still feel that he should respect time and be disciplined. From the different elements of reinforcement which one should his manager choose to get the desired behaviour Conclude by giving why it the one which you chose is the best suited.

Answer 1

The manager should use a Positive reinforcement because this element of reinforcement encourages workers to change since an employee will be given a reward for the good job he is doing thus his behavior of coming late to the job will be adjusted since he will be doing work towards achievement of making the company strong because at the end he is expecting a reward.