Lesson 12: Performance Appraisals and Dealing with Problem Employees

-Imagine you are a nurse manager and record ways of terminating an employee-

First of all, let me just put out there in the universe that I do not ever want to be in a situation where I have to terminate an employee. 

I feel the text hat some good idea of how things should go when an employee must be terminated. The four steps it outlines are:

1.  Calmly state the reasons for dismissal.

2.  Explain the employment termination process.

3.  Ask for employee input.

4.  End the meeting on a positive note, if possible.

I feel that this would be an ideal way to terminate an employee. The reality of this actually happening are dependent on the relationship that already exists between the employer and the employee. If the relationship is cordial, than I think the above steps could actually happen. I also believe that if an employee has reached the point of termination, it's most likely not going to come out of the blue. In most corporations or businesses, there are a series of steps that must be completed before termination and sot he employee would have been given time to modify their actions before being terminated. 

In a situation where the above steps were not possible, I believe it would be because the employee did not know the termination was coming. But, in reality i don't know how this is ever really plausible. If an employee has been dishonest in some way, and thereby circumventing the steps that usually occur before termination, they have got to have some idea that they are going to be caught sooner or later. The above steps most likely would not happen because the employee would start to rant and rave and blah, blah, blah....you know, the wicked take the truth to be hard.