Human resources management must deal with difficult or problem staff who can cost your business money. Direct costs can include everything from absenteeism and time spent fixing mistakes to safety-related costs and damage to business property.
Indirect costs can be equally as damaging, costing your business turnover of other good staff, loss of customers and damage to your reputation and brand.
In most cases, except serious misconduct or obvious inability/incapacity to perform a job, it is more cost effective to attempt to fix the problem and retain the current employee, rather than dismiss them.
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