How can the word “problem” be a good thing? Here, a small business owner with 15 years of personnel management under her belt shares how the hard-to-manage team members are actually the ones who make ...

(Reuters) Fri Aug 5, 2011 3:01am EDT - 1. The poor fit. Bibby Gignilliat, 51, chief executive of Parties that Cook in San Francisco, thought she had hired a winner but found her new employee’s ...

Employees build great companies, and they tend to know what to do to reinvigorate them. When faced with challenges, the natural response may be to call in a consultant. No offense to consultants—I've ...

When terminating a problem employee isn’t in the cards, don’t panic. You have more options than you think. You can’t always get what you want, not even when you’re justified in terminating someone on ...

Managers often use performance reviews to mold and shape employee behaviors and results. They trust that formally telling high performers what they’re doing wrong one to two times a year will lead to ...

At some point, you’re going to run into an employee who just isn’t performing up to your expectations. You’ll be lucky if that happens only once, but as Dennis McCafferty points out on CIO Insight, ...

Dear Annie: Not quite 20 years ago, I worked for a local authority mental health agency with about 650 employees. I worked in the human resources department and knew all the employees by name because ...

I am a senior project manager. I am being allocated a project manager in my team who is know to be a problem character. When she was a team leader no one used to get along with her. When she joined a ...