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A Checklist for Possible Problems
Have you ever felt:
• A sense of discomfort, embarrassment, sympathy, or anger when meeting an employee's spouse?
• A sense of relief when a particular employee goes on vacation?
• After-hours worry or concern about a certain employee?
• An unwillingness to discuss what may be an employee's personal problem affecting work performance because it is "none of your business"?
• Uneasy getting frequent phone calls from an employee's spouse to explain problems at home, sickness, or other work absences?
• The urge to do a job yourself rather than assign it to a certain person?
• The urge to cover up poor work performance of an employee rather than making an issue of it because you feel sorry for that person?
• Critical of yourself when a task assigned to an employee isn't carried out properly?
• Embarrassment at the behavior of a certain employee at a campany or social function?
• Uneasy noticing that one person is always the bartender at company or social functions?
• Uncomfortable including a certain employee in a social function because you don't know if she or he would fit in (sailing, hunting, fishing party, etc.)?
• Unreasonable amounts of anger when around a particular employee?
• Lied to by a particular employee, like you can't believe anything she or he says; or "conned" or "charmed" by an employee?
• That a particular employee seems to be "accident prone," or sick often?
• Uneasy about giving an automatic pay raise to an employee but not really sure why?
These are very subjective criteria. However, if you can identify 3 or more of these feelings for one of your employees, look further for signs of chemical dependency, such as:
• An executive who continues to perform at a very high level, but initiates fewer and fewer new things.
• Rigidity of style and thought. Unwillingness to try new ideas, equipment, or work with different people.
• Unaccounted for work time and frequent inaccessibility.
• Erratic productivity, questionable decision making, and sloppiness in
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