Tag: Defensive Management

Train Leaders to Practice ‘Defensive Management’ Best Practices

By Heather Hunt Dec 11, 2014 Talent

Updated: Dec 11, 2014

  To recap, attorneys representing aggrieved employees in discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wage and hour, and other types of employment claims love allegations of supervisor wrongdoing because that’s the “smoking gun” they need to paint that supervisor as a villain—whose statements, acts, decisions, and omissions should result in liability for the employer. Also, such acts may […]

Are You Training Your Leaders on ‘Defensive Management’ Best Practices?

By Heather Hunt Dec 10, 2014 Talent

Updated: Dec 10, 2014

  At some point, every workplace is faced with allegations that a supervisor behaved badly. Perhaps it was a stray remark about a disability, age, or race. Or maybe they treated someone in a way that wouldn’t pass the smell test under the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities […]