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.
Modern managers also realize that effective employee discipline is more of a mindset than a physical action. By focusing on the needs of employees, and the human relations aspect of the management job, managers are able to foster the development of dedication in employees.
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.