HR Effectiveness: Dealing with Mediocre Employees

Posted on July 14, 2008
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At the end of the day, Human Resources Effectiveness comes down to dealing with people. Whether you are the CEO of a large organization or the president of a closely held firm, realizing and managing strengths and weaknesses within your corporation is a key to long term strength and sustainability.

For instance, many would agree that terminating a disruptive or offensive employee is a no-brainer. But what about an employee who, although compliant and respectful, just can’t seem to raise the bar? Maintaining non-performing employees can be detrimental to the growth and performance of your business. Although firing is difficult for many of us, allowing mediocrity will only weaken your business foundation.

Atlanta Business Chronicle guest columnist Ben Leichtling recently wrote a column on how to deal with mediocre performance:

You’d have few second thoughts about dismissing an employee who’s extremely unproductive or behaves outrageously.

But what about an employee whose performance is mediocre, but not horrible? Or whose behavior is bad, but not outrageous? That can be a tougher call. But ignoring these problems can have a huge negative impact on productivity, morale and your career as a leader.”

Click here to read the full installment of “The Human Element: Employee hasn’t crossed line, but still must be dealt with”.

How effective is your human resources management? Are you effectively identifying and cultivating internal talent? Are you building successful teams and leaders? Or are you having difficulty dealing with non-performing employees or lack of internal growth potential? Click here to learn more about improving HR effectiveness.

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