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Punishment of employees – its causes, types, and consequences, as well as factors determining punishment for poor quality Cover

Punishment of employees – its causes, types, and consequences, as well as factors determining punishment for poor quality

By: Marek Bugdol and  Daniel Puciato  
Open Access
|Dec 2023

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Mind map – punishment.
Source: Own study
Mind map – punishment. Source: Own study

Figure 2.

Punishment of employees in the respondents’ workplaces.
Source: Own study
Punishment of employees in the respondents’ workplaces. Source: Own study

Figure 3.

Dominant types of informal punishment in the respondents’ workplaces.
Source: Own study
Dominant types of informal punishment in the respondents’ workplaces. Source: Own study

Figure 4.

Types of punishment received by the respondents in their workplaces during the past 12 months.
Source: Own study
Types of punishment received by the respondents in their workplaces during the past 12 months. Source: Own study

Figure 5.

Consequences of punishment received by the respondents in their workplaces.
Source: Own study
Consequences of punishment received by the respondents in their workplaces. Source: Own study

Figure 6.

Impact of punishments on quality.
Source: Own study
Impact of punishments on quality. Source: Own study

Selected organisational and functional characteristics and the use of punishment in the respondents’ enterprises

CriterionCharacteristicUse of punishmentχ2pW
NoYes
n%n%
Job titleSpecialist5844.39235.416.30.000.20
Production or customer service86.15822.3
Management and administration6549.611042.3
Size of enterpriseMicro and small8262.615961.20.080.780.01
Medium and large4937.410138.8
SectorServices8061.114856.95.290.070.12
Industry2922.18331.9
Public sector organisation2216.82911.2
Main customersIndividual customers8161.817466.91.000.310.05
Institutional customers5038.28633.1
ISO 14001, 27001, 450015441.211644.6
Applied management systems or conceptsLean and Six Sigma1813.7197.34.320.220.11
ISO 9001 and TQM4332.89436.2
None1612.23111.9

Selected organisational and functional characteristics vis-à-vis types of punishment applied in enterprises

CriterionFeatureType of punishmentχ2pW
No punishmentFinancial penaltiesDisciplinary penaltiesInformal penalties
n%n%n%n%
Job titleSpecialist5844.31738.65433.52138.217.160.010.21
Production or customer service86.11022.73723.01120.0
Management or administration6549.61738.67043.52341.8
Size of enterpriseMicro and small8262.63068.28754.04276.49.820.020.16
Medium and large4937.41431.87446.01323.6
SectorServices8061.12454.58854.73665.513.290.040.18
Industry2922.11943.25232.31221.8
Public sector organisation2216.812.32113.0712.7
Main customersIndividual customers8161.82659.111068.33869.12.440.490.08
Institutional customers5038.21840.95131.71730.9
ISO 14001, 27001, 450015441.22250.06641.02850.9
Applied management systems or conceptsLean and Six Sigma1813.712.3159.335.515.010.040.20
ISO 9001 and TQM4332.81840.96339.11323.6
None1612.236.81710.61120.0

Characteristics of the surveyed organisations

CriterionFeatureNumberPercentage [%]
Size of enterpriseMicro14436.8
Small9724.8
Medium5514.1
Large9524.3
SectorServices18547.3
Industry11228.6
Public institution5113.0
Finance4311.0
Main customersVarious individual customers20051.2
Institutional customers13634.8
Permanent individual customers5514.1
Health and safety management system14236.3
ISO 900111729.9
None4712.0
Applied management systems or conceptsLean276.9
TQM205.1
ISO 14001143.6
ISO 27001143.6
Six Sigma102.6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijcm-2023-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2449-8939 | Journal ISSN: 2449-8920
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 17
Published on: Dec 22, 2023
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2023 Marek Bugdol, Daniel Puciato, published by Jagiellonian University
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