Chapter 35. Bad Employee or Bad Boss?
When you have a series of bad employees, your experience may show a pattern in which you make similar complaints about your employees or they make similar complaints about you. As a result, you may be thinking you have problem employees, when the real problem is YOU! This may happen because you are repeating the same mistakes in hiring or making difficult demands that no employee can truly satisfy. Or it may be something about the way you manage that leaves employees in the dark or feeling hostile and resentful, triggering what you view as bad employee behavior.
Employees don’t want to recognize that they are at fault and not their boss, and the same is true about bosses who complain about difficult employees. ...
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