(Reuters) Fri Aug 5, 2011 3:01am EDT - 1. The poor fit. Bibby Gignilliat, 51, chief executive of Parties that Cook in San Francisco, thought she had hired a winner but found her new employee’s ...

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How can the word “problem” be a good thing? Here, a small business owner with 15 years of personnel management under her belt shares how the hard-to-manage team members are actually the ones who make ...

When terminating a problem employee isn’t in the cards, don’t panic. You have more options than you think. You can’t always get what you want, not even when you’re justified in terminating someone on ...

Smart employees often become overlooked when they offer too much hellp, avoid visibility, absorb stress, and make difficult work look effortless for others.

Two new studies find that leaders are less likely to empower followers who raise concerns about workplace decisions, even though these "challenging voice" employees play a critical role in ...

CIO.com – Annoyed by a coworker who was constantly whistling, the employee did what all people who fear confrontation do: He gave the job to someone else. He called over a coworker on the pretense of ...

I once worked for a company where it was common to hear employees say, “No good deed goes unpunished.” That saying existed for a reason. Whenever someone pointed out a problem, offered a suggestion, ...