Factor in Health, Personal, and Family Problems
Michelle is one of your most promising subordinates, and now there is a great opportunity for her to develop her skills and advance her career. You would like to put her in charge of training in a particular system at your field locations around the country. The position requires traveling two days a week. When you present this idea to her, Michelle bursts into tears.
When you give Michelle a chance to talk, you find out that she is in the process of moving her mother into a nursing home. This is a terribly difficult situation because the mother expected that Michelle would quit work to care for her. Michelle has had her eye on that training and traveling opportunity, and it seems to her a cruel ...
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