CHAPTER ONE
1.0. INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The concept discipline is a systematic instruction intended to train a person, application of mind, molding character, attitude, behaviour. We are going to look into how discipline has help in molding characters in civil service. Discipline inst will power in civil service. It is setting up the perfect environment to achieve the goals and objectives. The civil service in Nigeria, like most civil services in the world, was built strictly on the bureaucratic principle of the discipline and control in the conduct of the office and productivity in civil service.
The origin of discipline can be traced back to heaven when God disciplined satan and other fallen angels for their pride and disobedience etc. Obedience is as a result of discipline which means that without control for obedience there would not be discipline.
Discipline means to cause the mind to obey, discipline came into view because employees in the organization consist of people with diverse characters, thus there are “good staff” and “bad staff”. The good one are identifies on their conforming to the led down rules and regulations and commitment to the organization while the bad ones are noted for diverse negative attitude and tendencies which they exhibit at work such as laziness, stealing, truancy, insubordination, gossiping and lateness.
Moreover, these diverse negative attitude pose a threat to the achievement of organizational goals, and therefore require greater discipline and control are also necessary for to ensure that they maintain their behaviour and reassure them of the organizations commitment to good conduct and improved performances discipline impact having on productivity. Also in the context of human resources, management, discipline is better appreciated as a means of causing discomforts or suffering to somebody for wrong doing with the aim of preventing future occurrence of that particular behaviour.
According to Agu (2003:73) it is not usual for the personal manager to think of indiscipline or the part of an employer when the employee fails to obey reasonable instructions from a well constituted authority. An employee will then be subject to disciplinary action when he will fully commits a serious offence or crime against his employee. A discipline employee is the one who exhibits a high moral standard, seeks to become an important member of the organization, obeys reasonable instructions from his superior, committed to his task and protects the assets of his employer. There are general stages that must be followed in implementing a disciplinary procedure in any organization.
They are listed below.
A: Collection of facts on the subject matter of the infringement is preliminary investigations.
- Exoneration/ penaltor.
- Defense by the employee
- Interview of the employee
- Oral warning or written query
- Trial of offending employee
- Freed employee
- Guilty employee
Any organization wishing to achieve meaningful productivity must design a just and equitable discipline management system.
BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF IMO STATE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Imo state is one of the even states created by the federal military government on February 3, 1976 during the Mohammed Obasanjo regime. Hitherto the area was known as Imo state as part of the defunct East central state which was one of the twelve state initially created by the federal military government (General Yakuby Gowon’s regime) in 1967.
With the creation of most states in 1991 by general Ibrahim Babangida, Abia state was carved out from Imo state. The new Imo state is divided into twenty seven local government area (LGA) and three senatorial zones.
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
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