Costa Rica Expertise: August 2011

Monday, August 8, 2011

Employee revenge can spell doom to a company

By: Garland M. Baker B.
Exclusive to A.M. Costa Rica

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Today’s employee could be a company’s worst enemy tomorrow.  If an employee turns, some will do as much harm as they can to their employer.

There are three important rules to finding and keeping a good employee:  selection, training and remuneration.  Even after going through a strict selection process, training employees extensively and paying them well, a day could come when they turn on the company.  

There does not need to be a particularly good reason for this to happen.  An employee may just decide to find another job, move on with their lives, or decide they would rather not work anymore.  Whatever the reason, many employees – especially in Costa Rica – see easy money by accusing their boss or others in their company of mistreatment.  Even though this strategy knows no sex, women employees know they can stretch their charges farther than men.