Where is the scope of sending a Show Cause Notice ??
Of all kinds of managers, HR managers need to extra careful and sensitive; because unlike others who deal with Materials, Money or Machines, HR managers deal with human beings.
As in Medicine and Surgery, in-experience can be life-threatening.
Can one imagine a situation:
- if this case is genuine.
- the employee has undergone surgery and is in hospital,
- and the "show cause notice" is in the hands of his family members.
The best Test to ascertain if an action is just or not, is to ask oneself how it would feel if the action has been taken against you.
If the organization is so helpless/weak, that it can't function without this single employee; then he should be made the CEO. (In fact, even CEO's are not indispensable).
At times, one feels sad to find that HR managers create more problems than they actually solve.