Hello Rick. Can I ask why you want to compile a list. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of symptoms for the many, many different types of employees and the situations they are in. You could include kicking the table, frowning, playing pranks, and so on and so on. Symptoms can be grouped into two types:
1. Outcomes – objectively measurable outputs resulting from the employee’s work. These include productivity, efficiency and accuracy measures.
2. Behaviors – observable actions by the employee that may not directly impact outcomes but are required or discouraged by the values and policies of the organization. These include poor punctuality, aggressiveness, non-cooperation and so on.
I ask again: Why do you want to compile a comprehensive list? Whatever the symptom, I feel it then fruitful to find out why the employee is behaving in that way or not performing. I recommend using my diagnostic flow chart do diagnose the cause of
poor employee performance. It’s a handy tool for supervisors to use. You can see it at
www.businessperform.com/html/poor_employee_performance.html I hope you find it useful.
Les Allan
Author:
From Training to Enhanced Workplace Performance
www.businessperform.com