Deadbeat Employees: Made or Born?

A reader requested an article about managing deadbeat employees quite a while ago. It took me some time to write it - not because I don't think it's an important topic - I do - but here's the deal.

Deadbeat employees, for the most part, are made, not born. For most of them, it's not nature but nurture in our workplaces. The majority of your employees do not start work at your company thinking, I'd like to become a difficult, deadbeat employee. Nor, do they get up in the morning planning how to screw up their day - and yours, even if it may not always seem this way.

They come onboard excited, hoping to achieve their most important goals, needs, and dreams. But, somewhere along the way, their organization stomps the life right out of them. Sure, sometimes employees are unrealistic, immature in their opinions and goals, and looking for the

A carefully orchestrated hiring process should screen out the few really bad apples. Would you agree?

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"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things." --Dogen

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