Employee Relations

How to Document Employee Performance

05/19/2016

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Coaching your team from the sidelines

05/16/2016

When our teams need to perform at their peak, we need to guide them from the sidelines.

Document each step of every investigation

05/13/2016

As soon as you hear a supervisor complain that an employee isn’t performing well, start keeping detailed records of your efforts to investigate.

5 legal ways you can monitor your employees

05/13/2016

There are fine legal lines to watch for when electronically monitoring employees.

False complaints? You must discipline

05/12/2016

Plenty of employees have lots of legal savvy—enough to believe that filing a complaint might amount to a “get out of jail free” card.

Act fast to shut down bosses who insult, demean and harass their subordinates

05/10/2016

Are you hearing complaints that a particular manager is insulting subordinates to the point where it might be considered harassment? Don’t ignore the situation.

4 tips for responding to employee rants and raves

05/10/2016

Disciplinary and termination meetings are emotionally charged events that carry the potential for legal troubles.

When it comes to discipline, details matter–and so does consistency and fairness

05/03/2016

Employers that discipline workers consistently and fairly hardly ever get sued. On the rare occasions they do face a lawsuit, they don’t often lose.

Key to beating bias suits: Consistent discipline

05/03/2016

Make sure you equally and consistently punish all employees who break the same rules.

Appraising workers in alternative job arrangements

04/28/2016

Alternative work arrangements—flextime, permanent part-time, job-sharing, telecommuting—require managers to adapt in many ways. One of these, often overlooked, is performance appraisal. What’s the best way to evaluate the work of someone who’s working where you can’t see them?