Policy Project Outline

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Policy Project – Milestone Assignment

The goal of this assignment is to make sure that you are making significant progress on your Policy Project.

Your Name: | Alisha McDonald |

What topic have you chosen? | Discipline Procedures (poor performance & misconduct) |

Briefly (2 – 3 sentences) describe the fictitious company for which you are writing your student-developed policy. | Wagsmore, a local indoor dog park that facilitates grooming stations and kennels for long and short term dog boarding. It has a 1 person HR department and 25 employees ranging from full to part time. |

Identify at least 5 sources that you have located in the course of your research. 1. Do not include the course text or low-quality sources such as Wikipedia, About.com, eHow, etc. 2. Remember to format your sources using MLA style. | "COBRA Continuation Health Coverage." Employee Benefits Security Administration. United States Department of Labor, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2015. |

| "Discipline in the Workplace." HR for Administrators. University of British Columbia, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2015. |

| "Law For Change - Iowa Termination of Employment." Law For Change - Iowa Termination of Employment. LawForChange, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2015. |

| Mayhew, Ruth. "Federal Labor Laws Regarding Discipline & Termination." Small Business. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2015. |

| Moakley, Marta. "Ensuring Employee Discipline with Effective Processes." Employee Discipline. XpertHR, n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2015. |

Cut and Paste a draft of your “Policy Topic Research” below. This should be a well-developed draft of the first section of your Policy Project. For details regarding what this section needs to include, see the assignment documentation in the “Policy Project” folder on eLearning.

Businesses have many ways of dealing with their disciplinary procedures due to poor performance and misconduct. Iowa employs “at will” which means that the...