When an employee(s) fails—or even just performs poorly—managers typically do not blame themselves. The employee doesn’t understand the work, a manager might contend. Or the employee isn’t driven to succeed, can’t set priorities, or won’t take direction. Whatever the reason, the problem is assumed to be the employee’s fault—and the employee’s responsibility.
But is it? Sometimes, of course, the answer is yes. Some employees are not up to their assigned tasks and never will be, for lack of knowledge, skill, or simple desire. But sometimes—and we would venture to say often—an employee’s poor performance can be blamed largely on his boss.
Perhaps “blamed” is too strong a word, but it is directionally correct. Take the case of the Madan family. A family of 4, who happened to work for the Ontario government IT Department. Not 1 or 2, but 4 family members in the same area of government? How that does occurred is beyond me, ooh yeah, bad or poor Management right? The fact that there were no accountability for the actions of this family speaks volume to their heartlessness but also sheds light on the ineptness of the department or operations manager who supposedly had a role of leadership but maybe was actually being led…First it was $11 Million stolen from innocent, hard working, tax paying Canadian and their children, now there are reports that it is actually $30 Million and amazingly, all are free to go and come as they please. No jail time or convictions, yet we have jail systems filled with people who have committed “petty crimes” like stealing food and clothes, not worth a $100.00 as a means of survival but they are prosecuted, labeled as thieves and criminals and a threat to society, yet who have a family who have robbed the system of $30 million dollars and they are allowed to claim innocent or say they were sorry for making bad choices.. imagine they never got caught? Would that be bad choices still? just wondering?
What is the relation of this to recruiting? The biases, the double standards, the favoritsm, the deciets that exists in our society and especially those assigned to service the general public.. Leadership starts at the top and trickles down. The Madan family, while guilty of an veiled crime, are not the only ones to blame; the government has been silent on this so they too are just as complicit, so too are the lawyers and legal teams; they were quick to reveal the names of businesses who received payments from the Federal government during the covid lockdown, why are they not calling for publication of the names of businesses of Vidhan SIngh and Sanjay or Sandhadan Madan to be made public?