Reply To: Newly Assuming Managerial Duties at Employer

You have to be careful to avoid a common error for new managers. Among your 15 employees, there will always be a few who tend to slack off and not do their fair share.

The tendency for new managers is to avoid conflict and shift the burden to your good employees to get the work done on time.

While this may work in the short term, what you will end up doing is rewarding the slackers with less work and incurring resentment from your good employees who are fully aware of what is going on