Kris Dunn defines “Manager Pass-Through”

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Manager Pass-Through ((mn-jr ps thr)

1. What managers of people do when they don’t want to own tough or difficult news with employees.

2. Alive and well in every organization I’ve ever been a part of, and it’s alive and well in your company.

3. Rather than owning bad news or a difficult conversation with an employee, managers look for an easier out.  They/you explain deflective reasons why the action is necessary.  They/you often end up using terms like “them” and “we” to describe what’s going on and why.

Read more of at Kris Dunn’s The HR Capitalist (an FOT contributor blog)

 

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Kris Dunn
 Kris Dunn is Chief Human Resources Officer at Kinetix and a blogger at The HR Capitalist and the Founder and Executive Editor of Fistful of Talent. That makes him a career VP of HR, a blogger, a dad and a hoops junkie, the order of which changes based on his mood. Tweet him @kris_dunn. Oh, and in case you hadn't heard the good word, he's also jumped into the RPO game as part owner of a rising shop out of ATL, Kinetix. Not your mama's recruiting process outsourcing, that's for sure... check 'em out.

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