Your employees are not your family.
You can treat your family with indulgence.
That’s no way to run a business.
I believe that an employer should treat his employee with as much respect as he has for his customers...until the moment if and when that employee has broken the trust between the two.
I agree that employee’s are not family. Plleeeeasssee don’t make the mistake of telling them they are part of the family. That is just about the most stupid thing an employer can say.
Treat employee’s with respect as long as they earn it.
I always tell people that I promote into management, “Management is lonely. The people who used to be your friends at work cannot be anymore. You can be friendly, but you shouldn’t be buddies. You may have to fire them one day. You can’t play favorites. Stop having casual lunches with certain employees every day. Don’t hang out on the weekends. Your world is about to shrink. Get used to it.”
Generosity to the wrong person results in dependence and eventual resentment and at the end of the road contempt
I say this daily on this forum
Freepers love blanket issuances
But in employment as a boss there is no one size fits all to dealing with subordinates beyond the obvious
Some folks are gold and some aren’t
Kings were loved for generosity and fairness but respected for how they dealt with enemies and ingrates