"Meating"
Here is a term for a meeting whose sole purpose is to discipline employees. The term is comes from the impression of the people
attending the meeting because they feel they are being treated like raw meat.
Meeting is typically a result of “chicken” management. A problem arises because an employee broke policy or a mistake was
made. Rather than sit down one-on-one with the culprit, the manger pulls the entire department together to “lay down the law”.
Here is an actual meating that took place in a Rochester Hills business that will remain nameless. Construction on the road in front
of the office was creating major traffic jams at quitting time. Catherine decided she would get a head start by pushing out five
minutes early. After a few days management gathered the employees together for a quick team huddle. All employees were told
there would be no pushing out early. All employees except Catherine thought to themselves, “This ought to take care of Catherine’
s early departures.”
However Catherine sat in the meating wondering who the others were that were leaving early.
No positive result came of the meating.
Disciplinary meetings are obviously required when things get out of hand. However the purpose of the meeting is to move
forward – not to beat people into submission.
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Here is a term for a meeting whose sole purpose is to discipline employees. The term is comes from the impression of the people
attending the meeting because they feel they are being treated like raw meat.
Meeting is typically a result of “chicken” management. A problem arises because an employee broke policy or a mistake was
made. Rather than sit down one-on-one with the culprit, the manger pulls the entire department together to “lay down the law”.
Here is an actual meating that took place in a Rochester Hills business that will remain nameless. Construction on the road in front
of the office was creating major traffic jams at quitting time. Catherine decided she would get a head start by pushing out five
minutes early. After a few days management gathered the employees together for a quick team huddle. All employees were told
there would be no pushing out early. All employees except Catherine thought to themselves, “This ought to take care of Catherine’
s early departures.”
However Catherine sat in the meating wondering who the others were that were leaving early.
No positive result came of the meating.
Disciplinary meetings are obviously required when things get out of hand. However the purpose of the meeting is to move
forward – not to beat people into submission.
Share your own new business term using Contact Us.
Return to the Business Terms? Home page.
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