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Punishment is difficult to apply in the workplace. Explain why, what might be done to overcome such difficulty and identify what alternatives to punishment exist
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... WORK BEHAVIOR ASSIGNMENT Question 2. Punishment is difficult to apply in the workplace. Explain why, what might be done to overcome such difficulty and identify what alternatives to punishment exist? Answer 2. When defining punishment we say it does not intend to encourage positive behavior but discourages it at workplace where behavior is followed with an unpleasant outcome. It withdraws the positive consequences when a manager docks the employee's pay when she is tardy after himself assigning a tardy worker an unpleasant job or he says "you are late for work the third time in two weeks and I dock your pay". In this essay we look at several reasons to why the application of punishment; a form of operant conditioning remains ineffective at workplace and how to overcome the difficulty by adapting various alternatives. Punishment at workplace is often given in a way, which meets the requirements for the effective use














