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The Habitat Management Survey: When a Popular Employee Merits Firing

Donald E. Wilson. The latest in a series of exclusive Habitat Management Survey responses. in Board Operations on September 1, 2014

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Donald E. Wilson, Blue Woods Management
Sept. 1, 2014

In the end, the employee was not terminated (although he faced penalties stemming from the incident).

This sort of negotiation is not typical in such cases, but neither was the situation with which we were dealing. Usually, the board and the manager agree on how to handle a personnel matter and that decision is carried out. In the end, I think the process here was good because everyone became a little more educated about building staff and their unique relationship to the property. — Donald E. Wilson, President, Blue Woods Management Group

 

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