Back in the day, when I was a ‘supervisor’, our department head (who was himself a ‘problem’) kept having Human Resources conduct supervisor training sessions. I finally got so sick of it, I raised my hand and asked the trainer “when are you going to have training sessions for the employees on how to be a good employee ... like showing up for work on time, not showing up in yesterday’s clothes smelling like stale beer, fighting with coworkers, getting work done on time, etc.?” No answer, just an embarrassed look.
I was a ‘tough’ supervisor and enforced good employee behavior - fired a few folks too. The employees reacted with respect and we all got along fine once they knew the company policies & procedures would be enforced with an even hand. A good way to lose respect was to be a wimp & call an employee meeting & lecture the entire group about showing up at work on time when only one employee was showing up late.
A good way to lose respect was to be a wimp & call an employee meeting & lecture the entire group about showing up at work on time when only one employee was showing up late.
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I am dealing with the right now. My managers talk about getting our monthly quota of ten audits done and not just doing the minimum. The problem is that half of us average around 20 a month and the other half do the minimum, sometimes not even, and one person does about 12. Then they talk about the need to get through our lists of audits to do so we can move on to the list of unaudited places because their assigned employees left. The productive half of us have worked that list past halfway done.
It is really demotivating to have to listen to this all the time. They are on my case for my “attitude.” I am raging mad all the time.
I had to give up yesterday and today that I had scheduled off eons ago so I could get to work on another list they just handed us last week.
Either take the low performers aside and subject them to meetings to talk about where they stand in getting the work done and why they aren’t getting it done or name names in the meetings you hold with everyone.