Definition of punishment from Dictionary.com
Paper topic from Philosophy of Law class (fall 1975) - Is punishment necessary for the Law?
In general students argued for mild punishment or no punishment and a discussion instead of a harsher discipline as an alternatives. Let's reconsider this post as a test of this view. Does a mild message really work? What sort of batting average does it have?
Main reasons given for why somebody was disciplined given in the blog posts
1. The job was boring or otherwise tiresome. The person started to shirk as a consequence.
2. The person was incompetent at the job, perhaps because of a lack of experience. So the person made mistakes.
3. The person had some character flaw and didn't seem to care about the work.
Many students were against singling out an employee in a group work setting. Very few students talked about disciplining one employee as sending a message to everyone else.
Also, many students didn't distinguish an angry manager who was disciplining as an expression of that anger from a manager who had calmed down, thought it through, and was disciplining as part of the employee's education. This begs the question, how does one manage one's own anger at work?
Progressive Discipline
Konrad Lorenz On Aggression
Nurse Ratched One of the main characters in One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest
Google's Ideological Echo Chamber James Damore - Are big tech companies hostile places for women to work? Is the brogrammer culture actually productive or is it simply fraternity life on steroids? (Damore was fired from Google for publishing this document. He is suing them for wrongful termination.)
The Fear of Emasculation - One of my blogs posts that analyzes some of Damore's argument, and gives it a larger context. Tying this back to the topic of student blog posts - the issue is whether these fears have productivity consequences by making the work environment uncomfortable for co-workers.
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