When You Dont Get Along With Your Employee - Spark Hire

When You Dont Get Along With Your Employee - Spark HireAt Spark Hire, we talk a lot about how diverse the office and the workplace is. After all, if you want to have a successful business then you had better have diverse and unique ideas circulating throughout the office, right? Diversity is a huge step towards success but it can also work as a disadvantage. With so many different views, personalities and perspectives tzu siches bound to be disagreements and dislikes. Its impossible to think that an office full of individuals will be 100 percent cohesive and together. Of course, they can all work as a team, but they may not all like each other. Things get even more complicated if its the employer that dislikes their employee. In a position of power, this dislike can be manipulated and used in all the wrong ways. Read through this article and make sure you are steering clear of this particular instance and dealing with your dislike for an employee in the right way.There are very few a reas other than the office where you are forced to be with and work with people that you may not like. In other areas of our lives, we generally have a choice to avoid those we dislike. If your significant other has a friend you dislike, you tolerate them when you have to and avoid them when you can. However, in the office if there is a member of your team that you dislike you still have to work with them and collaborate with them daily. Even more, if youre an employer or a manager and dont get a long with a particular employee, but they get their work done and do a great job, it can really start to take a toll on your mood.Bad managers or employers would take their dislike for this employee and use it to undermine their work or their work ethic. Doing this is not only wrong, its completely selfish. As an employer or manager you should understand that certain personalities clash- and that includes your own. Just because you disagree with an employee or with their life choices doesnt mean you can work against them and their work. A good manager would realize the difference in opinion and personality and work to set it aside and not let it affect their interactions, daily work and the companys productivity. Personal issues need to be set aside in the workplace and you need to realize that working with all different personalities is something that is expected of you as a manager.At the same time you should consider this possibility maybe they dislike you as well. Often times we focus all of the attention on our own personal side. I dont like them because they said this or they are annoying because they do this. Its not so often that we step back and take a minute to think about why this person is rubbing us the wrong way or what we may be doing to influence this person to act a certain way towards us. You may not like your employee Susan because she seems unfriendly and never goes out of her way to talk to you. Ever. What you probably didnt consider though is tha t your vivacious, bubbly personality may be overpowering or intimidating to her and she doesnt know how to communicate with you. Thinking of her side may explain why she never talks to you and why you, in turn, dislike her.Of course, this isnt always the case. However, its important to try and see the issue from both sides. Its also important to know that we arent going to get along with everyone, but we have to attempt to make work relationships, well, work. Being a manager gives you a certain amount of power as well as responsibility. While doing research for this article I read so many stories where employers wanted to fire their employees simply because they disliked them. Their employees were getting their work done, but they didnt like how they acted or the way they worked. This sounds ridiculous and counterproductive to a companys progress. Avoid being this kind of employer and manager and instead, work towards being able to work with people of all backgrounds and personaliti es. That is what will make you a great manager or employer and in turn, make your company a great place to work.IMAGE Courtesy of Wannabe Employee Blog