Please to review the rest of our web site for our solutions to some of the most troublesome HR problems raised by Dr. John Sullivan. It saves you money if you do the calculations right. Bad employees have huge costs in that they impact customers, attraction, retention and teamwork. Good workers resent them. And C players never hire A players.
Bad managers cost the firm even more.
By firing poor performers you will energize the best performers and that will make you enough money to more than make up for the costs of the few cases that do go to litigation. Every slot filled by a bad employee can't be filled with a great employee. And without great employees you won't have a great company. Great ideas and products don't come from bad employees. Bad employees who happen to be in management and team leader positions have a multiplier effect on the productivity of others.