Personnel magazine offers a few dos and don’ts concerning firing:
- Don’t relate the bad news on a Friday or the day before holiday, when the affected employee will have extra time to brood about the implications.
- Don’t deliver the bad news alone, get a witness.
- Never humiliate or degrade an individual, regardless of the reason for discharge.
- Don’t send mixed signals by giving the affected individual one reason for his discharged while giving remaining employees another.
- Don’t announce to all and sundry that an individual is going to be discharged.
- Don’t notify affected employees too far in advance of layoffs.
- Don’t expect discharged individuals to behave rationally when they are told that they are being discharged.
- Make sure that all written materials- severance conditions, benefit-continuation forms, and pension or profit-sharing payouts- are prepared in advance.
- Don’t beat around the bush. keep the deleivery of the message brief, concise, and businesslike.
- Have a company representative call discharged individuals periodically until they have secured other employment.
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