Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace

author

Lynne Curry writes a weekly column on workplace issues. She is author of “Navigating Conflict,” “Managing for Accountability,” “Solutions” and “Beating the Workplace Bully,” and workplacecoachblog.com. Curry is president of Communication Works Inc. Send questions to her at workplacecoachblog.com/ask-a-coach or follow her on Twitter @lynnecurry10.

Signs of potential disaster were present before the Walmart shootings. Are they present in your workplace?

Workplace advice: OSHA’s “General Duty Clause” states that employers must keep employees free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Inflation is affecting employees, and employers should pay attention

Workplace advice: Employers need to evaluate whether they pay a living wage and whether they’re offering employees enough work shift flexibility.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

What local employers can learn from Elon Musk’s Twitter crisis

Workplace advice: One could feel sorry for Musk — except Twitter’s crises resulted in part from Musk’s own “I wing it” actions.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Digital presenteeism: Faking you’re there, and faking that you care

Workplace advice: Managers need to learn how to assess employee productivity by focusing on results, not activities.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

How can caregivers who worked through the pandemic be sure they’re getting the hazard pay they are due?

Workplace advice: Alaska’s state budget includes $32.9 million to support increased wages for personal care attendants. Of this, over half comes from federal funds.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Tough love for an employee who’s dodging accountability — and for the manager who’s enabling it

Workplace advice: The answer involves laying out the results outcomes you need to see specifically, positively, objectively and measurably.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Office creep has new employee wondering whether she made the wrong move

Workplace advice: “I was so excited to land a job in a medical facility because I thought the atmosphere would be more professional. It’s not.”

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

How to handle the dreaded ‘You’re fired’ interview

If you’d like to fire without backfiring and in a way that leaves the fired employee with dignity, here’s what you need to know.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Sign-on bonuses for new employees can benefit employers if they are deployed carefully

Some employers believe they attain better hiring results from investing in overall compensation and benefit programs that keep morale high for all employees.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Yes, speak truth to power, but be sure you’ve earned the right

You can’t march into your boss’s office with verbal guns blazing, making aggressive “got ya” statements.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Employees who seemingly want to be fired may be seeking financial advantage

In addition to situations involving repayments of signing bonuses or contractual agreements, Alaska employers may experience “constructive resignation” in cases where terminated employees seek speedy unemployment compensation.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Confronting gaslighting in the office

Workplace advice: “Are you sure about that?” “That isn’t what you said yesterday.” “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Gaslighters frequently make those kinds of statements to their coworkers.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Quiet quitting meets quiet firing

Workplace advice: A lot of managers either avoid confrontation with a problem employee or work harder to fix a problem than the employee does.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

Your work honeymoon is over: What now?

Workplace advice: If you’re caught in this bind, the situation is predictable and you can fix it.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●

A college degree is no longer a golden ticket for employees or employers

Workplace advice: Employers that eliminate their fixation on college degrees gain access to talented individuals unable to follow the traditional four-year college route to success.

By Lynne Curry | Alaska Workplace●