ABSTRACT
Discipline and disciplinary are very important organizational dynamics. Its success or failure can be of great effect on other aspects of
organization dynamics i.e. training, motivation, moral, performance etc. The study is aimed at appraising the nature and extent of staff indiscipline and its effects in Kaduna polytechnics. Data were sourced from primary and secondary sources. The primary data were source through questionnaire
drawn and interview conducted on both academic and non-academic staff of the polytechnic. The secondary data include official documents of Kaduna Polytechnic, Journals, books and so on. These data were presented and analyzed to test the two hypotheses postulated using table, frequency count and percentages.
The findings revealed that there is high rate of staff indiscipline in Kaduna polytechnics. The major reason for this as revealed in the study
includes; the disregard for rules and regulations of the Polytechnic despite the efforts of the management in ensuring that every member of staff has
access to the rules and regulations guiding their conducts at work as well as communicating those rules and regulations to them. The findings also show the inconsistency on the part of those responsible for taking disciplinary actions when necessary. The implications of all these as revealed in the
study is that the morale as well as the performance of the staff is being affected.
The study however recommended that the institution should adopt the idea of the Red-Hot-Stoop theory approach to discipline. Also honest and
hardworking staff should be encouraged by rewarding them.
