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When the award contradicts the approved leave
Participants examine an attendance-recognition scheme that excluded 104 colleagues during a three-month assessment, including 68 whose only absence had been authorised. Peter's own endorsement remains in the case. The proposed session distinguishes an accurate calculation from a justified claim about reliability and follows the decision to stop before awards were made, with ₹18 lakh already spent. Participants explain the decision from the position of an excluded employee, then reconsider what evidence a replacement award would need. The exercise does not declare the other 36 exclusions correct or offer a universal rule about leave entitlements. Actual employment arrangements require the relevant professional assessment. The intended learning is to identify the meaning a people measure acquires when it becomes recognition, progression or reward. Participants also consider how to communicate a late correction without hiding its cost or treating the event's inconvenience as a reason to preserve an interpretation that the evidence cannot support.