Managing an Employee Who Doesn't Like You: Twenty Strategies.

Abstract

In the course of your career in medical practice management, you will almost certainly encounter at least one employee who dislikes you. In some instances, an employee's dislike may be justified. But in many, you will have done nothing wrong. This article suggests what you can do to clarify how an employee actually feels about you, to be sure that what you're observing and sensing is dislike. It then suggests 20 strategies to help you manage, change, or cope with an employee who dislikes you. This article also suggests 14 signs that your employees hate you in secret. It offers 10 reasons that employees commonly hate their managers, five reasons that employees dislike managers who micromanage them, and seven reasons employees may dislike you that you can't prevent. Finally, this article suggests an effective first-aid strategy for bad employee-manager relationships and explores the potential upside of being disliked.