Determining the Differences between Managers' Conceptions of Discipline
Dr. Didem Pasaoglu

Abstract
Discipline is the power or measures package that head to decrease the disorders in the organizational life and stick to agreement between the organizational and individual goal. In this study, a research is made to determine the efficiency of discipline in organizations. The research is made with 130 employees working in Turkish owned firms and foreign owned in order to determine how managers’ effect disciplines perception and its implementation. As a result of this research, it has been observed that, in comparison with foreign owned firm managers, Turkish owned firm managers apply more discipline approaches (corrective and punitive), are less successful in discipline implementation and also a higher indiscipline rate is seen in organizations they manage. Besides, there is a perception that Turkish owned firm managers do not behave fair while trying to discipline. Employees that work under their supervision are not satisfied with discipline efforts.

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