{"id":144,"date":"2005-05-31T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/31\/difficult_emplo\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T22:09:29","slug":"difficult_emplo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Difficult Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from my post regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriscurnow.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/unfair_dismissa.php\">unfair dismissal<\/a>, there is an interesting thread over at <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/orgdyne\/\">Orgdyne<\/a> at the moment regarding Diffficult Employees.<br \/>\nList moderator Anil Behal struck a chord with this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am struck by the notion of &#8220;difficult employees&#8221; within the organizational setting.  I would be very intererested in hearing from you if you have been a so called &#8220;difficult employee&#8221; yourself, and\/or managed such employees in the past.  I don&#8217;t believe that there is a body of research out there that specifically looks into the psyche of a difficult employee, or from the standpoint of managerial leadership, what gets played out in her inner theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Having been a rather &#8220;difficult employee&#8221; myself, at least throughout my corporate career, I&#8217;d like to see if someone can define the term &#8220;difficult.&#8221; Difficult and dissenting voices in groups and organizations often hold the systemic anxiety &#8220;for&#8221; the organization, but also run the risk of being scapegoated by the organization to somehow make the anxiety disappear. I suggest that some &#8220;difficult&#8221; employees may make wonderful, and extremely compassionate leaders, if they can somehow survive the onslaught of the organization to annihilate them. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up from my post regarding unfair dismissal, there is an interesting thread over at Orgdyne at the moment regarding Diffficult Employees. List moderator Anil Behal struck a chord with this statement: I am struck by the notion of &#8220;difficult employees&#8221; within the organizational setting. I would be very intererested in hearing from you if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}