6th January 2012, 02:21 PM
Jack Wrote:But am guessing your talking about entrenched (ho ho) employees with long-term contracts who refuse to leave or change their lazy ways. Your only way forward then is playing the rules game....which can be twisty turny and fraught with grief and hassle.
One option (if your supervising a troublesome/lazy worker) is to take them to task on their shoddy work and/or lazy attitude. You don't have to be nasty, in fact it works best to be polite, accurate and succinct. Then watch and log (in a notebook if your company doesn't have the appropriate paperwork) every infringement the problem person does. You then have a record of the person not following instruction and maybe safety procedures, etc. etc.
performance management - a two way process by which manager and employee can determine how best to get the most out of any job. if 'smart' objectives are not satisfied it is quite possible to let get rid of almost anybody - its the new black
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers