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AJ12 Deal with poor performance in your team

AJ12.2 Implement disciplinary and grievance procedures

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. Ensuring that team members have clear, accurate and timely information regarding disciplinary procedures
2. Ensuring that you implement disciplinary and grievance procedures in a fair, impartial and timely way
3. Ensuring that you implement disciplinary and grievance procedures in accordance with your organisational values and policies, and the relevant legal requirements
4. Ensuring that the way you implement disciplinary and grievance procedures maintains respect for the individual and the need for confidentiality
5. Ensuring that your records of the proceedings and their outcomes are accurate and complete, and that you make them available only to authorised people

Occupational Context

1. Information:
   • organisational
   • legal

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know about:

Disciplinary and grievance procedures

• the importance of effectively applying disciplinary and grievance procedures and your responsibilities in relation to this
• situations in which disciplinary and grievance procedures should be implemented
• the importance of informing team members about disciplinary and grievance procedures, appropriate times to do so and methods to use
• the importance of fairness, impartiality and responding in a timely way when dealing with disciplinary and grievance procedures

Information handling

• the importance of confidentiality when dealing with disciplinary and grievance procedures - who may receive what information
• the importance of good record keeping and how to do so

Legal requirements

• the legal requirements relevant to disciplinary and grievance procedures

Organisational context

• the organisational values and policies relevant to disciplinary and grievance procedures

Required Skills

N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can implement disciplinary and grievance procedures

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• implement disciplinary and grievance procedures.

You must show evidence that you provide both organisational and legal information.

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in managing the performance of teams and individuals in a diverse range of contexts

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