...Tardiness in the Workplace Juan Luna Park University EN 306 - Prof Writing in the Disciplines: Business Communications Ms. Judika Webb May 3, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract………………………………………………………………………………..……3 Introduction………………………………………………… ………………………………4 The Problem………………………………………………………………………………....4 Reasons why employees are late to work…………………………………………………...4 Solutions/Recommendations………………………………………………………………..6 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..8 References…………………………………………………………………………………..9 Abstract Tardiness in the workplace is an ongoing issue. Managers should be proactive in combating this “drug” that has taken over our workplace environment. Many things such as dictating your employees’ reporting time in advance, outlining consequences of being late, and dealing with tardiness as it occurs can be done to attempt to alleviate this problem which costs companies billions of dollars in lost production opportunities. In a survey that I conducted, my initial observations involving my coworkers were confirmed as out of 40 surveys that I sent out, almost 30 people responded exactly as I expected. The abuse of being tardy is evident all around us as suspense dates are sometimes not met, tasks are not accomplished, and work orders are not completed. It is only through ones intrinsic motivational determination that his problem can be eliminated. Many steps can be taken to attack and attempt to cure this “sickness”. INTRODUCTION The most consistent...
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...Frequency of Tardiness and Academic Performance On Grade Nine Students In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements In Science, Math and English IV Submitted by: Dagala, Aaron Christian C. Elizaga, Maria Isabel A. Ibag, Bernadine E. Roslinda, Karl Angelo J. Soriano, Czashka Rheyshyl Submitted to: Mr. Rogelio D. Rasay III MAT-MATH Ms. Hasmin M. Macatabang MA-Ed Mr. Arcel Joseph C. Amoguis CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION “Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.” -Niccolo Machiavelli A significant number of school-age children have television sets in their bedrooms, and a great many probably are watching a late movie or one of the late-night talk shows when they should be sleeping. When and if they have an alarm clock, they just continue to sleep after it goes off. This was according to Murray Light who was asked to make an article regarding the growing concern of tardiness. Enamiroro Oghuvbu conducted a study in Nigeria to determine the causes of absenteeism and tardiness. He cites that the distance to school, school discipline, family background and school location are some of the common causes of for the tardiness of secondary students. Tardiness is a growing problem according to both of them. One’s tardiness, most especially a student’s, might result to low academic performance for he or she has missed a part of a discussion, making him or her unable to grasp the concept of the lesson. Stacy Zeiger, an eHow contributor...
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...An Iterated Dynasearch Algorithm for the Single-Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Scheduling Problem Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Richard.Congram@paconsulting.com • C.N.Potts@maths.soton.ac.uk • S.Velde@fac.fbk.eur.nl Richard K. Congram • Chris N. Potts • Steef L. van de Velde T his paper introduces a new neighborhood search technique, called dynasearch, that uses dynamic programming to search an exponential size neighborhood in polynomial time. While traditional local search algorithms make a single move at each iteration, dynasearch allows a series of moves to be performed. The aim is for the lookahead capabilities of dynasearch to prevent the search from being attracted to poor local optima. We evaluate dynasearch by applying it to the problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine to minimize the total weighted tardiness of the jobs. Dynasearch is more effective than traditional first-improve or best-improve descent in our computational tests. Furthermore, this superiority is much greater for starting solutions close to previous local minima. Computational results also show that an iterated dynasearch algorithm in which descents are performed a few random moves away from previous...
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...SCHOOL AND WORK TARDINESS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RURAL WISCONSIN by Barbara Lee Weade A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Training and Development Approved: 4 Semester Credits ________________________________________________ Dr. Joseph A. Benkowski, Research Advisor The Graduate College University of Wisconsin - Stout May, 2004 ii The Graduate College University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie, WI 54751 ABSTRACT Weade (Writer)(Last Name) Barbara (First) L. (Middle Initial) SCHOOL AND WORK TARDINESS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RURAL WISCONSIN Title Training & Development Dev (Graduate Program) Dr. Joseph Benkowski (Research Advisor) May 2004 (Month/Year) 80 (#Pgs) American Psychological Association, 5th edition Manual Style Businesses expect employees to arrive at the workplace with basic Asoft skills@ which include personal attributes like punctuality. The purpose of this research study was to examine the relationship between school and work tardiness in high school students in rural central Wisconsin. The literature review covered tardiness and absences in the work and school environment, school failure and its relationship to school tardiness and absenteeism, school interventions to change deviant behavior, students= insights about deviant school behavior, the home influence on school tardiness and absences, and the effect of work on school behavior and iii performance. The...
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...Ubogu, 2004 Emore, 2005; Ukoshi, 2004) Santillano (2010), in her study highlights the factors affecting tardiness. The result show that the tardiness cause personality traits of a person, including low self-esteem and anxiety as triggering factors of tardiness. Also tardiness is an inborn quality and other experts believed that some people are “chronically tardy” for the reason they consciously and unconsciously get good things from it. In addition parental attitude, family structure, socioeconomic status, teacher attitudes and schoolmates influence are factors affecting tardiness. Tardiness in the Philippines is getting worst since it is habitually done by most of the students even though in some professional field. In addition, some Filipinos make it very difficult to switch to Filipino time instead they make it as an expression used to say it is a cultural thing not to be on time and not to care. Moreover, many situation occur that tardiness is yet part of their lifestyle. (http:/filipinoaustralian.com.au/tardiness/) Today most of the students incur tardiness for they were not able to wake up early for the reason they were not able to sleep on time; some were doing a lot of things at night, but most common is that keeping their selves busy wasting time in the internet, chatting with friends and texting because of modern technologies Tardiness in school is a common problem among students due to laziness and not being aware of their...
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...Tardiness. Best Practices. * Teaching time management skills. Weave the theme of lateness into instruction. * School culture. Make school a place students want to be in. * Classes and meetings should start and end on time. NO double standards * Consistency counts. School tardiness should be reported in exactly the same way by teachers for every student. * Effectively communicate expectations to students. Policies should be clearly written and discussed. * Reward students for school punctuality and attendance. Consider recognition every quarter or for shorter time spans. If appropriate, write punctuality and attendance goals into Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) and recognize their achievement. * Monthly after school movies for punctual students Raffles for bicycles, Computer games and ice cream, pizza or popcorn parties on Fridays Raffles for watches Free tardy passes, or no tardy pens * Students who were tardy 1-3 times had to complete a postcard that was sent home to their parents. The postcard included the date and time of the tardiness, the reason for the tardiness, a corrective action the student could take to arrive to class on time in the future and the student’s signature. * Students who continued to be tardy faced progressively stricter consequences under the intervention: The student who was tardy 4-6 times received lunch detention. The student tardy 7-9 times received tasks such as cleaning desks, student tardy 10-12 times...
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...unwanted absenteeism and tardiness in their company. “Absenteeism and tardiness costs US companies as much as $3 billion a year,” (Gerdeman, 2013) this is a deficit that can easily be fixed with consequences for unexcused absences and habitual tardy employees. Inked the perceived notion that all rewards programs improve morale around the work place. The study that was done took a laundry plant that had implemented a reward program for punctuality to stop the unwanted absenteeism and tardiness in their company. “Absenteeism and tardiness costs US companies as much as $3 billion a year,” (Gerdeman, 2013) this is a deficit that can easily be fixed with consequences for unexcused absences and habitual tardy employees. Inked the perceived notion that all rewards programs improve morale around the work place. The study that was done took a laundry plant that had implemented a reward program for punctuality to stop the unwanted absenteeism and tardiness in their company. “Absenteeism and tardiness costs US companies as much as $3 billion a year,” (Gerdeman, 2013) this is a deficit that can easily be fixed with consequences for unexcused absences and habitual tardy employees. Inked the perceived notion that all rewards programs improve morale around the work place. The study that was done took a laundry plant that had implemented a reward program for punctuality to stop the unwanted absenteeism and tardiness in their company. “Absenteeism and tardiness costs US companies...
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...Learning Team Performance Management HMR/531 A typical employee performance problem will be examined for this essay. A relevant appraisal process will also be identified to address this problem, along with three key factors required to make the appraisal process effective. A specific improvement process will be identified to address the problem as well as some pros and cons of the identified process. An individual development plan will be identified to assist the employee in remedying their undesirable actions and leadership’s role in this plan will also be explained. Finally, key insights and specific impacts, which were garnered from researching the above topics, will be shared. Employee Tardiness Regardless of the profession, employee punctuality is imperative. Many persons struggle with punctuality in the workplace creating a disturbance that must be addressed. Every industry or profession must have employees that arrive at work on time. Timely and regular attendance is an expectation of performance for all employees in any organization. For any organization, lateness has many financial and nonfinancial costs. A recent survey found that absenteeism cost employers an average of $645 per employee (Certo, 2013). Late employees may have a negative effect on organizational productivity or efficiency. In addition, morale and work motivation of colleagues are likely to deteriorate when some employees are tardy (Koslowsky, Sagie, & Singer, 1997). To ensure...
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...The effects of the vices mentioned earlier on health could also result to poor academic performance. Here are the proofs of declining academic performance – tardiness, absences, skipping classes, poor motivation, loss of interest – all could result to failing grades. * Loss of interest/ poor motivation * Poor health/ smoking First, it may affect the physical energy level of a child which determines the time (including classroom attendance and after school educational activities) that can be used for learning. Second, it affects the child’s mental status that may have a direct impact on academic performance. Third, a child’s health status may affect the way her teachers, parents and peers treat her; this in part shapes the learning environment that she encounters. The first two channels directly affect own health input (both physical and mental) in the education process while the third influences a child’s education outcome through other inputs such as peer quality and teacher attention that is the result of a certain health status. * Alcohol Difficulty meeting academic responsibilities is one of the most common consequences of alcohol use. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Task Force on College Drinking reports that about 25 percent of college students report academic problems caused by alcohol use, such as earning lower grades, doing poorly on exams or papers, missing class, and falling behind. According to a national study of more...
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...in a variety of ways without using words. Basically, it serves as a key aspect of communication. 1 James made many mistakes during his meeting with Mr. Croze. James first mistake was his tardiness at their scheduled business meeting. The fact that he showed no empathy or respect for Mr. Croze’s time, would immediately put Mr. Croze on the defensive and would greatly affect any positive outcome regarding this meeting. In addition to the lack of his attention of his tardiness, he walked around Mr. Croze’s desk to shake his hand. This could also be perceived as another sign of disrespect. James should have reached across Mr. Croze’s desk to extend his hand. Secondly, crossing your arms and legs might seem defiant or annoyed to someone. Mr. Croze would probably feel James was irritated or defensive. I believe the tone and speed in which James spoke to Mr. Croze also was a huge mistake. Usually when someone has a high pitch tone and speaking quickly is a sign of discomfort, irritation and anger. James was the man who was late for the meeting, not Mr. Croze. He showed no respect or remorse for holding up Mr. Croze’s time. 2 Bob Croze also showed many nonverbal signs of communication to Mr. Grunloh. Bob rubbing his knows was a sign of impatience. He was irritated with the tardiness of Mr. Grunloh. Also when Bob crossed his arms and legs, this too was cue of defiance and annoyance much like Mr. Grunloh. However, when Bob uncrossed his extremities, he was showing complete...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: Mr. Lim FROM: Ms. Ixara DATE: 4 August 2013 ------------------------------------------------- RE: Tardiness Issue After reading the case and information given, it could be concluded that Amran is a good worker yet he has a problem regarding tardiness. There are some beneficial recommendations that could be implemented for the purpose of improvement as well as the consequences if actions are being made. 1. Flexible time Management could introduce a flexible time system to all employees so that they will have equal workload. Flexible time will also help Amran in order to manage his time between personal and work life. Since he has to get his six children off to school and to the baby sitter, it is impossible for him to get to work by 7.30 am. Thus, he may come and start working by 8.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm for instance and he must complete the required hours of a day. Employees may come late yet they must make up by going back home late. Unfortunately, if this action taken, it may seem to create difficulties especially when there are rush orders from the customers. The employees might not be able to complete and finish the task on time then. Further issues will be resulting from the dissatisfaction of customers due to the late delivery for example. 2. Work shift Next alternative that management could implement is by introducing work shift which includes day shift and night shift. By doing this, Amran will be much easier if he works in...
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...those you work with as well as you diligence and dependability as a worker. Arriving to work in a timely manner show your co-workers as well as your boss that you care, and they, as well as your job, are important to you. Being late for work has many negative impacts on the workplace. Being late forces others to pick up any slack that there is that you should have been doing had you shown up on time. This may cause other worker to be less productive due to a lack of motivation and demoralization. This can set other things behind and disrupt daily activities for a smooth work environment. It also gives the impression that the worker who has failed to show up to work on time doesn’t think his job is very important. Your boss may see your tardiness as a lack of motivation to progress in your occupation and pass over when the time comes for promotion. Motivation is very important because it shows that you want to be in your workplace and you have the drive necessary to progress. Also, on the military side, soldiers can face negative actions under article 86 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. This can lead to forfeiture of pay and even separation from the military. Adding to that, being late while you are in a combat situation can lead to missions being pushed back or even injury and death of other soldiers of your unit. The negative consequences on the civilian side are just as bad. You can be charged vacation/ sick days and even be fired for neglecting to be to work...
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...1. INTRODUCTION Title of the article is “Minimizing the sum of earliness/tardiness in multi-machine scheduling: a mixed integer programming approach”, and which at first defines the ET systems briefly. An early or late delivery will affect cost directly and objective of the ET problem fits perfectly. Assumptions in this problem are; • Due date assignments; being JIT is important to have maximum benefit from the sold product. • Penalty costs for being early or late; both situations cause penalty costs from warehouse or customer. • Sequence dependencies; machines setups are important in some cases and also the precedence may be required. • Machines; single or multiple machine systems are designed and N jobs are assigned to M machines. Moreover expectation is to reduce penalty costs by assigning in the right sequence. The author constructed a model by considering the above definitions and made a first draft, provided in the appendix 1. The objective function is about reducing the sum of earliness and tardiness costs with respect to the times of being early or tardy. First constraint claims the equality of the due date in terms of the time including the completion, earliness, tardiness, which restricts the values of being tardy or early because the due dates are appointed. Second constraint is a determination factor in binary system where if Z11 equals to 1 that job is held on machine 1 otherwise 0. Third and fourth constraints define the relation between precedence of jobs...
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... he is habitually late and reports to the office three times a week on the average. Yet, his co-employees and peers do not mind it at all. What is socially normal is viewed as the controlling individual of one’s individual behavior; social norms can be moral, social or legal and can often be very vague. More recently a lot of interest has been focused to the circumstances that norms will be adhered to (Bicchieri, Muldoon, 2014). Why? Despite his habitual tardiness, Ernie might be considered a competent employee. He is bright, reliable, efficient and a prolific researcher and writer. His technical expertise is beyond doubt, having graduated Magna Cum Laude in college and completed with distinction doctorate degree in economics from a top university in California. He has conducted numerous researches and has several publications to his name. He is also part of a technical panel that evaluates research proposals and he often serves as resource person on the subject matter of his expertise. Give these; his tardiness is not an issue to his officemates at all. In fact, they think Ernie is an asset to the agency given his qualification, competence and...
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...Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports The Impact of Positive Reinforcement Sara Nino Dallas Baptist University Abstract I chose to research the Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports approach to positive reinforcement. I wanted to find out if this approach taught temporary or long-term (positive) behavioral changes. I researched this approach and compared it to the Responsive Classroom approach. In order to determine its effectiveness, I looked at referral data at Nimitz High School provided around this time this last year, and compared it to its current numbers. While it showed beneficial changes last year, I found an increase in behavioral problems this year. I also attempted to look at the reasoning behind the increase in referral numbers. Keywords: P.B.I.S., Responsive Classroom, positive, behavior, reinforcement, Skinner’s theory Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (P.B.I.S.) is framework utilized within the school system in order to create a positive atmosphere. It is an approach which is implemented through reinforcement of student’s positive behavior. This approach is similar to one known known as the Responsive Classroom approach. The expectation of positive behavior reinforcement is to reduce discipline problems and increase student productivity and learning. These types of reinforcement fall in line with Skinner’s Theory. P.B.I.S. follows a three-tiered framework in order to prevent and correct problem behaviors. ...
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