Maintains discipline in the workplace. This is an area that requires clarity, consistency and vigilance. It is really important for supervisors to convey the rules to employees, i.e., individually (and/or via new employee orientation group sessions) when they first come on board and then via occasional reminders to the unit. If you counsel an employee for being tardy, you can reasonably anticipate that he/she will point out to you that other employees (by name) have been tardy as well. Tardiness may not be an issue (i.e., where an employee is on a flexible schedule that can be adjusted on a daily basis), but breaks and lunch hours can become “loose” over time, so periodic reminders can be useful. If you allow an employee to engage in misconduct, it is highly likely that other employees will notice, and some of them may engage in similar behavior, figuring that either it isn’t important to you or that you’re not paying attention.