Some examples may help clarify just what advocacy is: 1  You join a group that helps build houses for the poor--that's wonderful, but it's not advocacy (it's a service). 2  You organize and agitate to get a proportion of apartments in a new development designated as low to moderate income housing-that's advocacy.
Over the years, the concept of employee discipline has grown. Managers realize that discipline is a part of the job. They also realize that there must be disciplinary action within an organization to maintain some sense of control. In today's workplace, discipline and documentation go hand in hand.
If you asked most employees the purpose of a progressive discipline policy, many would say companies use it to justify involuntary terminations. However, discipline in the workplace has more than one purpose. Employers develop and implement disciplinary and corrective-action policies for a variety of reasons, ranging from instructing proper workplace processes to deciding who gets promoted from within.