A Manager experienced a formal grievance (bullying style)  from two members of his Management Team. The grievance resulted following a ‘polite’ poor performance discussion with his second in command and the grievance was fueled by another disgruntaled junior manager within the management team.

What is behind this is the two junior managers were angry with the organisation because they had to re-apply for their jobs and were given the same job, differant title and reduced salary. The company also reduced manpower costs which meant the manager and team had to manage the same workload with over 20% less manpower hours. Putting pressure on the management team to achieve more with less was the final straw.

This manager is a ‘good manager’ he has no history of poor team leadership and the rest of the team are as shocked by the incident as the manager is.

The middle manager persued a witch hunt and has worked hard to prove the manager guilty by conducting the investigation himself. (Another middle manager is to conduct the disciplinary)

Folllowing the investigation the middle manager suspended the manager pending a disciplinary interview.

The manager realised that he was basicly being ‘hung out to dry’ and has resigned.

He has been informed that his resignation has been accepted but he must still attend the disciplinary interview:

Does he have to attend? What may happen if he refuses to.?