The Master Manipulator

This chapter represents the employer’s most difficult challenge. The hardest employee complaint to prove (or disprove) and the hardest setting in which to take steps to avoid and/or detect future problems. Here we meet the master manipulator as harasser.

The Situation

The master manipulator is a minority of workplace harassers. Some are not manipulators – they are clueless or insensitive but manageable after appropriate disciplinary measures. And most of the manipulators are not masters – they leave electronic smoking guns, or are unabashed in their behaviors and attitudes so that third party corroboration is easily obtained. (The latter do not even warrant a chapter – they are just busted.) Because of the significant “degree of difficulty” of this less common situation, however, the master manipulator is an important topic...

Download this eBook to learn how to manage workplace investigations with the following employees:

• The high-risk harasser - Read the preview
• The squeamish supervisor - Read the preview
• The master manipulator
• The poor-performing complainant
• The reluctant innocent bystander
• The clueless, yet compliant, accused
• The questionable complainant
• The counseled complainant
• The gossipy employee
• The parting shot complainant