Termination in Management

 

 

 

 

 

 

Termination in Management

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In my time in management and operations, I have ever been involved in a “high risk” termination. It involved terminating an individual who was a 57-year-old person who was a mother of 5. Due to the pressing of finances that the company was experiencing, it was necessary to terminate her and other employees. The difference between her and the others was the fact that she was elderly and it would prove hard for her to find another form of employment, bearing in mind that the economy was having a staggering growth and it showed signs of the country diving into a recession (Fox et al., 1969). Therefore, she would not be able to pay her mortgage and other necessary bills as her husband was out of work due to disability. Regardless of the fact that they were getting disability cheques from the government, they did not do much if she was declared unemployed. Therefore, the mitigations in place were that I requested the assistance of a third party that would do the termination as myself, I would be faced with challenges running from feeling empathy and emotional about the whole scenario. With the third party organization in place, the termination went smoothly as the individual was able to see sense considering it was the organization’s work to know what employees need and how to convince them through a severance package that the company had set in place (PPostel-Vinay & Turon, 2011).

In the case of the scenario detailed above, I would have taken the challenge and done research on a perfect termination can be done without any hitches. The mitigations in this type of scenario were to explain the dangers that were underlying the company and be able to paint a picture to the employee on how they would be helping to try and keep the company afloat regardless of them ending up being terminated. Through this, they will have a clear set of mind that they would be doing more of assistance, and the issue of termination would be an afterthought.

 

References

Fox, E. F., Nelson, M. A., & Bolman, W. M. (1969). The termination process: A neglected dimension in social work. Social Work, 14(4), 53-63.

Postel-Vinay, F., & Turon, H. (2011). Severance packages.