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This area deals with assessing the need for and the supply of professional and other personnel. Functions include recruitment, selection, training, compensation, and evaluation of such personnel and examining ways to evaluate productivity and monitor accountability for results.

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Discussion question 5

Posted by: Vendla Esler on August 23, 2009 at 11:38AM EST

Discussion question 5 is interesting as I have had this experience and have to question ‘information’ what does that mean. Is there evidence that his or her performance is showing signs of impairment that would be the only reason if on the job reports are being filtered that performance issues are a concern. Otherwise I do not feel ‘information’ is something that can be dealth with, who knows what abuse means, did he or she get drunk somewhere – if not on call is that really our business ? drugs well that becomes a legal issue but again if not within the walls and not affecting performance is it the employers issue to deal with ?

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Posted by: Stanley McBride on September 2, 2009 8:24PM EST

This is a tough question - no doubt. My experience tells me that it is not the employers issue to deal with an individuals personal life. Think about this scenario that I had to deal with two weeks ago. At 9am in the morning I called one of our maintenance techs to our department for a refrigeration repair. He arrived but had a smell of alcohol on his person - not his breath but he had a strong odor. Almost like he had gone a little overboard the night before. Now his performance was not lacking but we had to run the fitness for duty policy on him. I recommend you review and revisit that policy, I had not really looked at ours before this incident happened. Just a thought.