How To Tell If You Have a Troubled Employee |
A Supervisory Self-Assessment
The more of the following questions you answer with a "yes", the more likely you are dealing with a troubled employee in your work unit.
- Is it easier to cover up for a supervisee than to make an issue of his/her poor job performance?
- Do you have a sense of relief when an employee goes on vacation or calls in sick?
- Is it easier to do an employee's job duties yourself in order to assure that it gets done correctly?
- Do you feel that your employees' personal problems are none of your business even though these personal problems affect how well they perform their job duties?
- Do you ever feel that you should intervene in an employee's personal problems but you're afraid the person may no longer like you and you may lose a good employee?
- Do you ever ignore an employee's job performance because a low functioning employee may be better than no employee at all?
- Do certain employees cause you "after work" worry?
- Do certain employees always seem to have bizarre things happen to them that take them away from their job duties?
- Have you ever had to defend yourself on whether or not your instructions were clear or specific enough?
- Do you ever feel lied to or conned by your employees?
- Do you ignore the poor performance of an employee because you feel the "system" for dealing with problems is designed to protect the poor performer?
- Do you keep discussions of employee performance "off the record" to gain the confidence of the troubled employee?
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