To determine:
How to handle inefficient employees in two scenarios of being soft with the employee and another scenario being a tough manager how can this employee be handled.
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Case study about distribution manager in French Grains bakery, he is responsible for end to end distribution management. Drivers have a predefined responsibility of filling delivery report accurately to avoid financial losses as we as loosing on customer relationships. There is a team of 5 drivers and 1 of them is the major contributor for mistakes that happen in filling the delivery report that is about 60% of whole mistakes. Second driver contributes to 30% and Third drive contributes to 10% of the mistakes. Rest two are with no errors in filling the report. So being a delivery manager how will you handle the 1st employee?
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