Is HR staff trained to referee termination scenarios?

How snap termination decisions can put an unexpected dent in the corporate wallet and the company’s reputation.

Given today’s pressures on line managers to produce, coping with difficult and time-consuming employee situations is not always a priority. This results in scenarios that are often concluded with a hasty firing, exposing the company to hostile scrutiny by the employee’s counsel and potential negative opinion from remaining employees. In addition, if a discharged employee is reinstated following a grievance hearing by an arbitrator because of sloppy management procedures, there’s likely to be tremendous awkwardness around the work site for all parties.

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