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Disrespect for people is rife in construction.
<25A0> Survey reveals 48% of HR managers have dismissed difficult employees without trying to resolve issues first.
Construction firms are under fire for being the most likely to "engineer" a dismissal or redundancy of a difficult employee without attempting to deal with the issue. The shock results come from a survey undertaken and released today by CJ's sister paper, Personnel Today, and law firm Halliwells. The survey questioned HR managers in 11 major sectors, including retail, banking, education, health and government. Asked if they had ever engineered the dismissal/redundancy of a difficult employee without attempting to deal with the issue, less than a third (29%) of the entire survey respondents said yes. However, in construction, nearly half (48%) of the HR managers said they had. Asked how often they dealt with issues of conduct, capability and grievances, construction HR managers tended to spend less time than most of their contemporaries in other industries: on a weekly basis, just 17% dealt with conduct, 12% dealt with capability and 2% dealt with grievances. A total of 80% of the construction respondents agreed that some difficult employees are a lost cause. Guy Guinan, employment partner at Halliwells, said: "Engineering the dismissal of a difficult employee is a dangerous practice, ...
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