Jackie,

No unfortunately we do not have an HR department and the disiplinary policy
is not something I am ready to go to yet - being such a small organisation I
think offical action at this point in time would be a bad move and has
backfired in the past. But I think it is something I may have to consider if
tackling it more informally doesn't help.

Thanks for your response and let me know how things go with your problem I
am be interested to see how you get on.

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacqueline Hartwell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 January 2004 10:30
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Staff and nonsense


Hi Sam,

I'm in my first managerial role and I'm also facing staff management issues.
Does your employer have a HR department or disciplinary policy that you can
refer to?  This is the route that I am following with one of the library
staff here.

Regards,

Jackie Hartwell


>>> Sam King <[log in to unmask]> 01/15/04 09:47am >>>Dear List,Taking a slightly different turn I wonder if I might prompt a newdiscussion.I am experiencing some problems with a fellow staff member and would like toopen the issue up to the floor, as it is one many of us will cover in ourPDRs. Any advice would be most welcome or just a general discussion would beinteresting.Some background:I work as a solo professional (full-time) and have one part-timenon-professional assistant. The staff member in question has been at thecollege for coming up to ten years, some two years prior to my taking overas Librarian. They are self employed for the remainder of the week and thislibrary job is purely a means of earning money. Despite this their worklevel has always been of a good quality and I have always been able to leavethem pretty much to just get on with things. It has become apparent in thelast few months that this is no longer the case. They are becomingincreasingly distracted!
 by students, personal issues, bringing personal life
to work , etc. I have begun to feel that they are not pulling their weight
and that perhaps when I am not on duty very little constructive work is
being done. But its quite hard to put my finger on specifics which makes
addressing the problem difficult. Confrontation is not an option (I know
this much from past experience)it causes more problems than it solves. They
have expressed an intention to leave work at the end of this summer and go
travelling around the world, but this isn't certain and leaves the library
in limbo until notice is handed in and there is always the possibility that
they will change their mind and stay.

The main problem is that I have no other professionals to discuss the
problem with and feel very isolated/frustrated by the whole situation. I am
trying not to count on the staff member leaving as this avoids the problem
and makes it worse if they decide to stay:o

Can anyone suggest possible coping strategies? As Lesha mentioned in her
last pre mini-break posting (in reference to another issue) - you catch more
bees with honey than vinegar...

Any suggestions on how this issue can be constructively included in my PDR
would be valuable!

To the floor...

Thanks

Sam


Samantha King
Librarian
NSCD








-----Original Message-----
From: Lesha Fossey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 January 2004 08:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: I'm going on a mini-break


Hi all

just to let you know that I am going away on a mini-break for my birthday
and
won't be able to access my email until next Monday. So please don't think
I've
gone all haughty and am ignoring any messages (especially about recent list
events!). I'll be back next week :-)

Lesha


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