What To Do When HR Will Not Let You Fire An Employee

“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.”

~Norman Schwarzkopf

I recently spoke at another great facilities leadership workshop. While at lunch a department leader at a major university shared, he had some weeds in his department; employees who refused to buy-in, work together or produce the results he needed. He felt helpless in his own department. He said HR would not let him fire them. He was frustrated.

We have heard the term, ...