Firing Doesn’t Have to Be Painful Process
It can be quite a painful fact that many managers, when faced with having to fire someone, forget, or are unaware of the emotions that are experienced by the person being fired. Nor are they usually aware of the behavior that most often results from these emotions. It has been well documented that the death of a loved one, a marriage or long term relationship breakup and the loss of one’s job, have an equal and similar impact on one’s emotions — and life. Think for a moment about the loss of one of your dear relatives or friends through death — how did you feel? That’s exactly the same feeling that people have when they suddenly and unexpectedly lose their jobs.
One factor that is often overlooked when firing someone, is that the way it is done can have as much impact (positive or negative) on the people who remain. They will be watching (and will invariably get a first hand report from their colleague) about how well or otherwise the process was managed. The people who remain in the organization, and whom I assume you want to keep, get a good look at both the manager’s and the organization’s real people management skills when under the stress of firing someone. They’ll most certainly ask "Could this happen to me?"
When a client company partners with a PEO, like Workforce Solutions, Inc., they gain valuable access to our in-house legal council to help them through the firing process. Workforce Solutions, Inc. helps our clients by coaching them and providing them with the needed resources and will even conduct the firing process.
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