Taylor was disciplined for sending a personal email using a company computer.When he reviewed the employee handbook, he could find no mention of this being an infraction.When he brought this up with his manager, he was told that he "should have known better." The discipline of Taylor appears to violate the __________ rule for effective discipline.
A)clearly communicate the standards and code of conduct to all employees
B)be sure that the punishment fits the crime
C)document discipline
D)discipline in private
E)monitoring

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The effective discipline rule that this situation violates is the clearly communicate the standards and code of conduct to all employees. If there is no mention of personal email usage in the employee handbook, then it cannot be expected that every employee would know that it is not allowed. The manager's response of "should have known better" implies that Taylor should have known an unwritten rule, which is not effective communication of standards and code of conduct.

Taylor Was Disciplined for Sending a Personal Email Using a Company