This programme gives delegates the knowledge and understanding of preparing for a disciplinary hearing as an Initiator and conducting a disciplinary hearing as a Chairperson. This workshop will allow delegates to investigate the challenges they are facing regarding the implementation of disciplinary action, and to act on it with the correct procedure and preparation. The programme will also allow delegates to conduct hearings and to administer disciplinary principles in a fair and consistent manner.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
TARGET AUDIENCE
COURSE CONTENT
Provide you with step-by-step skills to deal with misconduct from incident to disciplinary measure implementation
Ensure that you appreciate the difference between misconduct and incapacity
Instil understanding of the requirements of procedural and substantive fairness
Skills to investigate and formulate misconduct allegations
Equip you with insights of the rules of evidence insofar as they contribute to effective discipline
Understand the aims and methods to apply corrective and progressive discipline
Provide you with initiator and chairperson skills
Learn the structure and stages of an efficient disciplinary hearing
Understand how to question witnesses
Equip you with skills to make a fair decision of “guilty” or “not guilty”
Learn how to determine a fair disciplinary measure
The workshop will capacitate all individuals who may have to initiate and deal with workplace misconduct from cases of minor infringements of rules to serious misconduct necessitating a skilled and impartial chairperson. The tools and skills learnt will enable delegates to confidently handle the procedural and substantive fairness challenges posed by employees’ non-compliance with workplace rules.
