In Your Marketing Solutions Pte Ltd, Jane holds a junior position as the new Marketing executive who reports to Anne, the senior marketing executive. Whilst, Marcus oversees them as the Marketing Manager.
After a few months Jane entered the company, she and Marcus were seen coming and leaving the office together and also eating lunch together. Some even saw them on a date catching a movie together.
Anne felt that Jane’s performance was pretty good for the first few months as she was hardworking and willing to learning. Recently, after been rumoured to be dating the manager, Jane’s work has become sloppy and incomplete. Anne advised her to improve her work on several occasions but her words fell on deaf ears. There were rumours that Jane's change in attitude was because she had her boyfriend/boss to back her up. One day, Jane offended a client with her sloppy attitude and lack of pre-meeting preparation, resulting in loss of a business deal.
When Anne feedback to Marcus about Jane’s recent working attitude and mistakes, he blamed Anne for not guiding her well instead. Anne felt frustrated because of her current powerless position. She can only suffer Jane’s sloppy attitude, increased workload and accusation in silence.
Does Anne really have to suffer in silence?
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Hi Huixin,
ReplyDeleteFirstly, Anne does not have concrete evidence that Jane’s personal life is the reason for her drop in work standards. Therefore, Anne should not tackle this situation backed up by a rumour. Instead, she should look at the facts. That is, Jane is not performing up to standard, regardless of the cause. If Anne’s duty as a senior marketing executive entails her providing training for Jane, then she should start logging their training sessions and ask Jane to initial them. This is to ensure that she has done her part in Jane’s training. This log could also be used as proof to Marcus. If in the event that Jane still underperforms despite her training and Marcus is being biased, she should raise this matter to a higher authority. Office romances are frowned upon, and if Jane and Marcus are indeed dating, then they should declare their status within the company, so as to avoid any misunderstandings and unprofessional behaviour.
Hope this helps.
I think that if i were Anne, instead of asking Jane to improve her work, I will have a good talk with her and try find out what is the problem for her sudden change in her work attitude and performance. If there is any, as her senior, i will try to help her out and b more understanding in that case. If she cannot give me a good reason, I will have a good talk with byran about the issue and show to him that she has been changing in her work performance because she has indeed perform well during her first few months. If bryan is seem to be siding her still, I will talk to fiona again and warn her that I will report to the higher management if her problem persist. If her problem continues, I will take further actions.
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