M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow

Exercise 109

Scenario: XYZ, Inc.
Jane is a manager at XYZ Inc., a manufacturing company. She is in direct supervision of several employees and has been experiencing a problem with employee lateness and safety violations. Jane believes that environmental events precede all behavior and employee reactions are based strictly on the consequences that are present for their actions.
Based upon this information, which of the following tactics would be best for Jane to attempt to correct the employee lateness problem first?
A) Fire the employee who is most often late to set an example for the others.
B) Institute a monthly raffle which employees earn entries to by being on time.
C) Ignore the lateness and wait for coworkers to correct the problem within their peer group.
D) Have a staff meeting and name the people who are consistently late in front of everyone.
E) Dock the pay of late employees.