You are fired

I think most of us have seen the TV show “The Apprentice”, at the end of almost each episode we hear the famous few words of Mr. Donald Trump “ you are fired.” What would you do if you have to fire an employee?

In my current position, I had to make a firing decision regarding an employee, his job performance was weak and he was not able to show any improvements even after repeated training and continues encouragement. He just didn’t want to be here. The firing decision came when he failed on his last job assignment and failed to give any logical explanation on why he failed.

I was faced with little ethical dilemma over the firing issue, after all this employee joined the company from day one nd I only joined the company three months ago. But one of my main job duties is to re-organize the company and make it more productive and one main element of over all productivity is “highly productive employees.”

I made it very clear to all my staff members that we value each of them as a great asset to the company, but at the same time I will not tolerate any weak performers, if anyone needed assistance, my door is always open for help, but there is no excuse not to perform.

Firing this employee was a message to all our employees that the company is very serious about performance.

Sometimes the decision is hard, but to save the whole, you have to let go of few elements.