The Case of the Unproductive Employee
As the Director of Student Programs and Engagement, you are responsible for supervising six other employees . It's your second year on the job and you're feeling more and more comfortable with the responsibilities you've been given . You were blessed to have a pretty strong team to supervise and you all get along pretty well . The only weak spot in the team is your coordinator for Intramurals, Kimiko .
Kimiko has a great attitude and genuinely loves the work she does, but there are some things she just doesn't seem to "get ." She is regularly late with her monthly reports, she oftentimes loses receipts for the supplies that she buys, she's not usually on time for meetings, and on more than one occasion you've needed to confront her lack of professional boundaries with student employees . She is always apologetic when you talk to her about these things and she promises to change, but there hasn't been much improvement in the last year .
Things have gotten to the point that you feel it is time to "let Kimiko go" and find a new Coordinator . When you speak to your supervisor about her, he disagrees with you and says it's your job as Kimiko's supervisor to help her grow in these areas . When you try to explain all the work you've done investing in her, it becomes apparent that you're probably not going to win this discussion .
This is your first major discussion with your supervisor on evaluating talent and you want him to have confidence in your ability to supervise well . If you help Kimiko improve, it may make your evaluation of her seem premature and wrong . On the other hand, if you don't help Kimiko get better, you're going to be stuck with her problematic behavior for at least another year .
> What would you do?
I would help her out as much as I could. If she does not get it then I would talk to your boss again. Tell her that she needs to improve in her area or you will have to let her go. Give her earlier due dates and make her be there before it starts.
ReplyDeleteI would just tell my supervisor that I will try my hardest to help her improve at her job. If you tell him that then if she gets better then he will probably just notice that you have helped her, and then you won't have problems with her. Warn her that she might get let go if she doesn't improve.
ReplyDeleteI would continue to help her as much as I could. But if she doesn't improve her work in over a month I would tell her that if she doesn't start working harder your going to have to fire her. If she still doesn't improve I would talk to my boss again and explain to him that you have tried and tried and still haven't got improvement.
ReplyDeleteI would tell my supervisor all the stuff that she is doing. I would also tell him that I have already did all I could to help her and I will try to continue, but I don't think it is going to work. Since she is always late for meetings tell her a different time. Tell her to be there like 20 min early and just tell everyone else the normal meeting time.
ReplyDeleteI would let my supervisor know what she is doing and I would try my best to help her get better at her job. If she isn't improving I would make sure the supervisor talks with her because theres no reason why she cant be doing something to help her improve
ReplyDeleteI would do what my supervisor suggests because he is my supervisor after all. I would tell him that I have given her a year, yet she has failed to improve at all. I would talk to him again later if the problems persist in the next couple of months.
ReplyDeletei would let my supervisor know and try to attempt and get her a better job. i would tell him that i have given her a lot of time and she still will not do anything about it, its rediculous. if it keeps happening i would tell him again because by then it would be stupid.
ReplyDeleteI would probably explain the situation and tell her that she needed to change or that we are going to find someone else that can take car of what needs to be done. I think that I would take things up with my boss and just flat out tell them what is going on and what we have done to try to take care of the situation.
ReplyDeleteI would take it upon myself to make her better at her job. It's my responsibility to make sure she does her job well. Even if that means that you have to be not so nice.
ReplyDeleteI would tell my supervisor that I will try to help her become more productive but it will be hard and that if it doesn't happen it isn't my fault and that he needs to realize that if she is hurting the company we need to let her go we can't let her keep losing money for the company. Also tell him ive given her chance after chance and she never changed it.
ReplyDeleteI would let my supervisor know and try to the best of my ability to help her improve on her job. If she keeps missing and being late i would let my supervisor know again and tell him/her that you tried to help her and it doesnt seem to be working. It is not ok to be late to meeting or meeting deadlines.
ReplyDeleteI would tell my supervisor and say I would talk with her about it. She may understand and work hard at fixing it, but if she doesn't then I will explain to her that I may have to fire her. If I have helped her as much as I can and haven't seen her improve a lot I would pry fire her. I would talk to my supervisor before doing so though.
ReplyDeleteI would continue to help her as much as I could. But if she doesn't improve her work in over a month I would tell her that if she doesn't start working harder your going to have to fire her. If she still doesn't improve I would talk to my boss again and explain to him that you have tried and still haven't got improvement.
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