...CASE STUDY The foreman catches two men fighting on the shop-floor. The fight is between Ramu and Gopi. Ramu had been fooling Gopi for some small matter. Gopi lost his temper and gave Ramu a poke. Ramu hit back. Both of them have had clean records in the past. QUESTIONS 1. Give a suitable title to the case. 2. What is the core issue in this case? 3. What is the Peculiarity of this case? 4. What are the strategic mistakes did by both Ramu & Gopi? 5. Should both men receive equal punishment? Or Should Gopi be punished more severely for starting the fight or Ramu for provoking it? Why? 6. What is the nature of punishment you will recommend? 7. Will you go for a formal enquiry or settle informally? Why? 8. What are your strategies to prevent aggravation of further tension between RAMU and GOPI? 9. What are the leanings from the case? Date: 3 March 2015 CASE ANALYSIS BY THE FACULTY (D.Mavoothu,Ph.D.) (Strictly for SMS Classrooms Only) Title: ROLE MODELS-TURNED ROGUE MODELS What is the core issue in this case? There is a moral Vs. legal dilemma that whether RAMU and GOPI should equally be punished? Peculiarity of the case? Normally, in any in disciplinary incident, there will be a culprit and a victim. But in this case both RAMU and GOPI were turned out to be culprits. Strategic Mistake by RAMU? * RAMU should have kept himself as a victim by not hitting back GOPI. RAMU will be in a better position if he maintained his...
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...[pic] Unit Learning Guide School of Communication College of Arts Name of Unit – Fashion and Identity Unit Number: 100941 Teaching Period: SPRING 2010 Unit Weighting: 10 credit points Unit Level 200 Unit Co-ordinator: Juliana Swatko Teaching Staff: Juliana Swatko, Jordan Graham First Point of Contact: Name Juliana Swatko Phone 9852 5441 Email : j.swatko@uws.edu.au Student Consultation A time for face-to-face consultations can be arranged by email. Email enquiries will be answered at regular intervals during the week. Provide details of times that are available for student consultation, including face to face, answering email or phone enquiries. It is a condition of enrolment at UWS that students must use their UWS student email account when corresponding with UWS staff by email in relation to their studies. The UWS Policy relating to this requirement is accessible at the following address : http://policies.uws.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00019#maj3 Attendance Requirements Students are expected to attend at least 80% of face-to-face sessions, and should contact the unit coordinator and lecturer by email to explain any non-attendance in advance. Essential Equipment and/or Resources Equipment Students need to have access to a computer where the Internet can be used to logon to E-learning at UWS and the VUWS website for this unit. It would be useful to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded from...
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...GUIDELINES FOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE - CONTENTS Chapter 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Item Discipline and Indiscipline Acts of Misconduct Report of Misconduct Flow-chart of Disciplinary Proceedings Preliminary Enquiry Principles of Natural Justice Charge-sheet Suspension Domestic Enquiry Penalties Appeal and Review Annexures Page No. 96 97 98 99 102 103 104 107 109 117 122 123-153 Policy Manual CHAPTER-1 DISCIPLINE AND INDISCIPLINE 1.1 Discipline means orderly behaviour - It means voluntary and willing compliance of rules and regulations and instructions and also development of right habits of conduct in work with others at the work-place. Why do we want Discipline? (a) Discipline is essential in any organisation for improving the employee morale as well as to increase the productivity which is the ultimate goal of any organisation. Discipline is of utmost importance for harmonious working with a view to achieve Company’s objectives. It is moral responsibility of the employer not to allow the minority of employees who are indisciplined to affect the life of majority. 1.2 (b) (c) 1.3 How does Indiscipline arise? In most of the cases, indiscipline of a worker is the expression of his reaction to his environment. Usually the causes of indiscipline are : (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Lack of awareness of Company’s rules and regulations; False promises made by superiors; Absence of any procedure to handle grievances; No action taken when required; Personal...
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...grievances; (d) No action taken when required; (e) Personal frustrations and misunderstandings. There could be many other different reasons for indiscipline depending upon individual differences. 1.4 Corrective and Punitive action Since any case of indiscipline is basically a behavioural problem, it is necessary that before taking any punitive action, all efforts should be made to improve the behaviour of the employee by correcting him through education, counselling, persuasion and coutioning. However, if all the efforts to improve the employee fail, the Supervisor/Man-ager should never hesitate to reprimand the employee and, if the misconduct is serious or has been repeated, to report the matter to the superiors for appropriate disciplinary action. GUIDELINES FOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE V OLUME -I 96 Policy Manual CHAPTER-2 ACTS OF MISCONDUCT...
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...Is it fair that law enforcement can use unnecessary force to protect and serve this country? Law enforcement is supposed to protect and serve justice to the community. However, in some cases they use and abuse power given to them to where it is considered misconduct on their part. Maria Inamagua was from Ecuador living in the United States. She had gotten arrested on immigration violation charges in St. Paul, MN. She complained of severe headaches and dizziness for the course of five weeks. The jail law enforcement failed to take her to the hospital to receive treatment and instead gave her Tylenol. Before she passed away she suffered for 4 hours before being taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead due to lack of treatment of oxygen depriving parasites in her brain. (http://cuapb.org) Instances like this, shows that some people in law enforcement have no compassion for others. We as people should know our rights when it comes to police misconduct and take a stand for what are right. If you ever happen to be in a situation such as an arrest and they hand cuff you, there are a few things you should do. Make sure you don’t resist arrest and say that you are not resisting arrest. You should have the badge number or the name of the officer. If you can’t write it down call it out to where someone can write it down for you. Next, if you are injured in any way go to the hospital and tell hospital worker that you were injured due to an officer (only if it really happened...
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...Written Warning for Misconduct and/or Performance [Date] [Name] [Address] Dear [Mr./Ms. Last Name]: This letter shall serve as a formal written reprimand and is to confirm in writing our discussion on [date] concerning your unacceptable [performance and/or conduct] and to establish my expectations which I have outlined in a Corrective Action Plan to be commenced immediately. Further, you are hereby warned of additional disciplinary action if your [performance and/or conduct] does not improve. I have developed this corrective measure to assist you in bringing your work as a [classification] to an acceptable standard as defined in your enclosed Employee Performance Appraisal. During the past [time period], your supervisor has shared with you concern about your [performance of the functions of your position and/or unacceptable conduct]. While I want to emphasize that some of the deficiencies would not constitute unsatisfactory performance when viewed singularly, the cumulative effect demonstrates your inability or unwillingness to conform to expected standards of work. I believe it is necessary to initiate this Corrective Action Plan to cause you to understand that not only are your deficiencies unacceptable, but also that we are at a point where such [substandard performance and/or unacceptable conduct] can no longer be tolerated. [Insert language describing the consequences of the employee’s actions, or inactions.] You have been verbally counseled on numerous occasions...
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...Police misconduct | Often we want to know what goes on behind law enforcement and how their misconduct is handled. In this paper you will read about cases that have affected lives of Americans all over the country. | 5/13/2012 5/13/2012 ENGL107-1202B-01 English Composition II: Week 3 – Assignment: Police Misconduct 05/13/2012 Amber Derr American Intercontinental University ENGL107-1202B-01 English Composition II: Week 3 – Assignment: Police Misconduct 05/13/2012 Amber Derr American Intercontinental University In the world wide spread of media, it’s not hard to find opposing opinions about the fine line of law enforcement doing their jobs verses police brutality. The difficulty lies in deciding how much needed force is too much before crossing that line. You can ask multiple people in a community and every answer will be different. In reality it’s a matter of being able to tell if it’s out of protection or if it’s abuse of power. Is it fair that law enforcement can use unnecessary force to protect and serve this country? Law enforcement is supposed to protect and serve justice to the community. However, in some cases they use and abuse power given to them to where it is considered misconduct on their part. Maria Inamagua was from Ecuador living in the United States. She had gotten arrested on immigration violation charges in St. Paul, MN. She complained of severe headaches and dizziness for the course of five weeks. The jail law enforcement failed to take her...
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...Forensic Misconduct: Dr. Pamela A. Fish Kirstin L. Daniels Professor Ian Rodway George Mason University Forensic Misconduct: Pamela A Fish Forensic science is defined as the practice of utilizing scientific methodologies to clarify judicial inquiries. The field of forensic science contains a broad range of disciplines and has become a vital aspect of criminal investigations. Some forensic disciplines are laboratory-based; while others are based on an analyst’s interpretation of observable patterns (Kourtsounis, 2009). According to the Innocence project’s website; in greater than fifty percent of wrongful convictions, the use of invalidated or improper forensic techniques played a role in cases; which were later overturned by DNA testing. Unlike other forensic methods, serology has been subjected to rigorous scientific testing to achieve validation. Even still, these methods can be inaccurately conducted or counterfactually conveyed during the trial (Innocence Project, 2012). Since the evidence presented during a trial can be the difference between freedom, and incarceration in many cases and death in some cases, misconduct in the forensic field is not tolerated. Some types of forensic misconduct include exaggeration of statistics, false testimony and laboratory fraud. Evidence offered by forensic scientists is often called “expert testimony”. Nevertheless, what is an expert? Is it someone who has gone to school and earned an undergraduate, graduate...
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...Minorities and Police Misconduct I. Thesis Statement: Police misconduct can happen to anyone that runs into a official with a hidden agenda. However, police misconduct usually happens to minorities and in communities that are underserved. When the police target these minority groups they cause the minority groups to not trust officials, elevates the crime rate in underserved areas, and can destroy the minorities quality of life. II. Major Supporting Idea #1: Minorities lose trust with officials when there is malicious police conduct. ·they feel more attacked than protected. O “relationship between the police and minorities, especially African Americans, has been marked by a long history of violence and mistrust.” (Lersch,1999) ·minorities are targeted, and are cheated out of tax money for programs. The authors also used certain court cases to prove the fact. In this editorial, the authors decided to show how much money was being spent by comparing what the money could buy if it was not spent on police misconduct cases. This gives the reader a more physical example to how dire the situation is than using just numerical figures. (The Daily Record, 2011) ·minorities feel they are not going to have legal support. “This occurs despite the fact that race is often the focal point of misconduct in a way that disability status is not.” (Clark,2002) III. Major Supporting Idea #2: Crime rates in underprivileged areas increase because minorities do not believe police...
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...The court system is set up to have a fair trial, where the judge is neutral towards everyone and evidence is needed to prove one’s guilt. The prosecutor’s job is to represent the government against the person or people accused of a crime. The person accused of a crime has the right to a lawyer’s defense to make the trial fair. Even with rules and guidelines set up in the court system for a fair trial, there may be some cases in which show defense attorney misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, or judicial misconduct. Use of heroin or cocaine; letting the defendant wear the same clothes described by the victim; admitting that he or she did not know the applicable law or the facts about the case are all examples of the defense attorney misconduct (Pollock, 2014). Some prosecutorial misconduct include, introducing false evidence in the court room, portraying hog blood as human blood, and using suppressed evidence that a murder occurred when the defendant had an alibi (Pollock, 2014). And judicial misconduct may be failing to inform defendants of their rights, exceeding bail and sentencing authority, and ignoring probable cause requirements (Pollock, 2014)...
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...Police Misconduct American Intercontinental University English paper Latarrace Johnson 8/25/2013 ABSTRACT Police misconduct is currently on the rise in many cities. Police misconduct can be define as false confession, false arrest, falsified of evidence and lying under the oath. For many years police crimes have went unreported and punishments are never given. We now have to put an end to these wrongful duties taken by police officers around the world. Have you ever experience police brutality or discrimination? Have you ever heard the police officers lying under the oath? All of these are some examples of police misconduct. Police misconduct is illegal actions performed by the police officers. Theses wrongful duties can range from false arrest, police brutality, falsified evidence, false confession lying under the oath and falsification of documents. The rules that govern the police in a certain area is what constitutes police misconduct. In the 1820’s the acts of police misconduct were normally towards poor labor workers. The way police misconduct is handled in the Atlanta area has greatly aided the culture of continued and unpunished conducts of police against civilians. In the case of Kathryn Johnston Fulton county police shot and killed a 92 year old women who lived in her home for 17 years. Three undercover police came to Kathryn’s home with a no knock warrant. A few months before Kathryn’s neighbor home was broken into and the lady was rape, a year before...
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...Police Misconduct Response CJS/210 February 03, 2012 Police Misconduct Response Police brutality is the use of excessive force by a police officer and can be physical attacks, verbal attacks, or psychological intimidation. Police brutality is often triggered by disrespect towards the police officer. Police corruption is a form of police misconduct that is used by police to obtain personal gain, financial benefits, or career advancement. Police misconduct are when police officers take inappropriate actions in their official duties, which can lead to an innocent person being punished for a crime they did not commit or miscarriage of justice, and often involves discrimination. The relationship between police brutality, police corruption, and police misconduct are that they are all abuses of authority and violations of federal and state laws, or violations of the constitutional rights of the individual. There are many safeguards in place to protect individuals from abuse by police officers, such as Miranda rights that prevent officers from illegally obtaining information from the suspect during an arrest, the fourth amendment that protects the individual from illegal search and seizure and use of unlawful force, justification protects public from police abuse by limiting the times an officer is able to use force, and the fourteenth amendment protects the individuals rights to due process. These are all ways to protect the rights of the individual. Other ways that...
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...Police Misconduct Amanda Stasiewicz CJS/210 01/31/2015 Professor Harvey Smith Police brutality is a major issue in today’s society. I would define police brutality no different than what it really is which is when an officer uses physical force with an intent to harm(Grant & Terry, 2008). Police brutality is not only physical though there is also verbal brutality. If an officer yells at you, calls you names, or uses profanity towards you for no reason than it is a form of verbal brutality. If an officer lays hands on you and uses excessive force purposely when it is not needed than it is considered physical brutality. A lot of police officers believe they can get away with it and it simply boils down to them having a little power and taking advantage of it which leads to my next point. Police brutality is not the only problem we have. We also have police corruption and misconduct and all three of these things normally go hand in hand with each other. They have a relationship they share which is normally because when one is present another is also being performed. Police corruption is the misuse of authority by an officer(Grant & Terry, 2008). This is where an officer allows the little bit of power that they have get to their heads and take advantage of it. They believe they can do what they want and get away with it. When this happens normally police brutality is not far behind. There are a few different things that could be done to prevent all of...
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...Subject: Policy No: Version: Effective Date: Contact: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy PP-ACD-DB-10.4 V3 25 July 2012 Immediately Chair, Deans’ Committee This document is issued and controlled by the Policy and Document Control Officer. Approval for changes may only be given by the President or in his/her absence, an authorised member of Senior Administration. This is a controlled electronic document subject to update and must not be copied. 1.0 Purpose of Policy The purpose of this policy is to set out the University’s commitment to Academic Integrity, with particular reference to: the importance of acknowledgement practice; responding to plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct in a consistent and equitable manner; and the roles and responsibilities of staff and students in upholding the values of Academic Integrity. 2.0 Definitions Word Academic Integrity Definition (with examples if required) Demonstrating the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility in all academic endeavours, including preparing and presenting work for assessment as part of coursework or research. The practice of acknowledging the ideas, designs, words or works of other people in one’s own work. An academic task which a student is required to complete to provide a basis for an official record of achievement or certification of competence in a subject, as stipulated in the Subject Outline. Using another person’s ideas, designs, words or works...
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...Part 1 Explore Freedom of Exploration and Ethical Responsibility Exploring the website http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/ethics/ I read several articles including Ethics in Science which was adapted from lectures given by Professor Henry Bauer in the Chemistry Department at Virginia Tech. This essay discusses scientific misconduct and a more dependable model than the scientific method. It opens with many examples of misconduct from major universities to Nobel Prize winners. It is eye-opening to see how prevalent scientific misconduct has become and makes one ponder just what are the pros and cons of such misconduct. Figure 1 | Bauer states that the key to understanding the reliability or lack thereof science is the realization that science is done by human beings. He believes that how these scientists interact with one another is crucial. He believes that scientific knowledge is accumulated through a “knowledge filter” as in figure 1. The top where it is most broad contains any all human traits. Rather competent or not, lazy or hard-working, careful or sloppy, everything is thrown in the original mix. Most of the nonsense gets filtered out through undergraduate and graduate studies in science.The next filter we must ask “What will others think?” There is always someone reviewing one’s work who will determine worthiness for publication, grants, graduation, promotions or employment. As the filtering process continues, most of the dishonesty is removed before reaching primary literature...
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