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RULES BRING DISCIPLINE AND PERFORMANCE

 Welcome back from an extended year-end vacation on core HR Content. As part of the welcome,  we shall share something light today. 

Between 2007 and 2009, I chaired The Study Center Committee of the Ikeja Personnel Practitioners Consultative Association(Ikeja PPCA), which prepared students for the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN),  professional diploma. I equally,  lecture on Advanced Industrial Relations there. 


I share with you today the non-negotiable Rules I made to organize the class. 

They are: -

- No late coming will be allowed. 

- All phones must be on silent mode. 

- Students will do the reading. 

- No handouts. 

- There must be sharing. 

- Law of Harvest. Gal. 6:7

- No side discussions. 

- No visitors allowed. 

- No student will walk out of the Lecturer. 


Two beautiful things came out of the above Rules. 

Firstly,  There were no records of failures. 

Secondly,  All my students agreed that my practical examples based on practice experience were too fantastic to be true. For example,  when I told them that I once declared a trade dispute against a Trade Union,  they took it with a pinch of salt. 


Next week we shall start a series on Job Hopping: A Function of Ineffective Performance Management System. 

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