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If you're an HR manager then you know how difficult it can be to manage inappropriate
behavior in the workplace. Welcome to Ideas Made Easy. Every week we share with you creative
business ideas that you can use to revolutionize your industry. In this week's episode we're
gonna look at two situations where employees are behaving inappropriately and give you
tips on how to properly handle them. The best HR managers understand that allowing employees
to take breaks throughout the day will increase their productivity. However, employees will
sometimes take advantage of this and spend more time than they shoul browsing Facebook,
chatting with co-workers or spending way too much time out on their lunch breaks. Glad
to see you're finally back. I've been sitting here waiting for you worried sick. Uh, what
time is it? It's only been like 45 minutes. Young man it's been an hour and 45 minutes
for your lunch break and you didn't even bother to tell me. Gosh golly gee willikers, it's
no big deal. All I ask for is that you update the company calendar letting us know how long
you'll be. Is that too much to ask? You don't understand, we were meeting with a new client.
Oh I understand how meetings with new clients work. What I don't understand is why you can't
update the CRM system letting us know how long you'll be. Ok, ok. We weren't meeting
with a new client. The marketing guys just wanted to check out a new restaurant. And
if the marketing guys wanted to jump off a bridge, would you do that too? Why are you
always on my back about these things? Sometimes I feel like I just want to run away to another
company. Your project manager is not gonna be happy about this. In this situation the
project manager and staff member were at fault. Staff members should be taking extended breaks
without informing his manager while at the same time, the HR manager could be more flexible
and only reprimand the staff member if it becomes a regular habit. What's ultimately
important for your business is performance. Working for the sake of clock hours does not
help your company's bottom line. Hey are you kidding me? Have you been here all weekend?
Yes, I've been working really hard. Uh, are you ok. I mean maybe you should take the day
off? No, no, no. I've been working for the past few years every weekend. According to
my calculations I've put in about 2000 extra work hours. Ok, well the customers aren't
here on the weekends so that doesn't even matter. Tell that to logic. The way I see
it, I get to take off until next year. Woah, woah. It doesn't work like that. Yea, yea,
yeah. In case I don't see you for a while, Happy St. Patrick's Day, Happy Mothers Day,
Father's Day, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas and have a great New Year. See you in 2015.
Ok, maybe that's a little extreme but what you want is quality results. Not a list of
hours somebody has sat at their desk. As a manager, you need to make this clear. So as
you can see, from these two stories results are everything. On one side, you need to let
employees know that output, not hours is what helps a company grow. And at the same time,
let your employees understand that while management can be flexible, it has to be within reason.
Today's challenge question is "If you were the manager in these situations, how would
you deal with them?". Hop on over to the GetCourse blog where the real discussion happens and
leave your comments for us there. Want more tips on the lighter side of business? Make
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episode we're going to be featuring your comments to today's challenge questions so make sure
to leave some down below. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll catch you next week,
bye.