How To Deal With
Difficult Employees at Workplace
There is always one.
But are your employee’s faults always their fault? We’re probably all a little
bit one of these. Here are a few potential spanners in the work and how to turn
into well-oiled components in your team.
The Uncooperative Ones
Signs
- Outwardly very devoted
- Arrogant
- Don’t believe in group work
- ‘I know everything’ Attitude
Potential Causes
- Burn Out
- Believe they are indispensable
Solution
- Consider encouraging them to take a break
- Introduce stress reducing measures
- Provide more incentives for team work
The Procrastinators
Sign
- Decrease Productivity of Group
- Don’t Pay attention to dead lines
- Don’t tend to care what other think of them
Potential Causes
- Boredom due to a lack of challenge
- A lack of skills
- Fear of failure
Solution
- Surprise with unscheduled reviews
- Give authoritative work where they need to take charge
- Hold accountable for deadlines and quality of work
- Provide appropriate training to develop the skills they need to
understand
The Office Clowns
Sign
- Entertaining at the cost of being disruptive
- Don’t tend to take things seriously
- Lack of maturity in approach to work
- Potential Causes
- Attention seeking, due to arrogance or lack of confidence
- Lack of focus and interest in the task at hand
Solution
- Discus privately their disruptive behavior
- Provide Work with tight deadlines to encourage focus
- Avoid public discussion or disruptive their behavior mid-way, this
prevents the attention they seek
Source: http://hubjobs.co.uk/blog/managing-difficult-employees-problems-and-solutions/
