Reference no: EM132265006

You're a new manager and you've inherited a small staff. Most of the employees do their job and seem to know what they're doing. You have one employee who is close to retirement and seems to lack any form of motivation. In your mind, the employee seems to have already "checked out". The employee is reluctant to take on any extra work. Given the employee's personality, you've decided you could live with the employee doing "the minimum"--after all, you think to yourself, the employee's retirement will come soon enough! But, now you've noticed the employee becoming increasingly vocal at staff meetings or during work discussions where you've started to ask questions about workflow and processes. The comments seem to be negative- "we've done this before-why are we chasing our tails", "here we go again, training a new manager who doesn't trust we know what we're doing". You're feeling like your authority is being undermined and that the employee's comments are affecting the morale of the department. What should you do?