The Case for Golden Rule Employment
Posted by admin in Employee Relations, tags: cause and effect, employment relations, ethics, golden rule, lawsuits, mutualityIf you treat your employees as you would want to treated (or as you would want your wife, kids, parents, etc. to be treated), most employment cases would never be filed - John Hyman
The above is an excerpt from Ohio Employer’s Law Blog. Hyman calls it the “Golden Rule of Employment Relations”.
I am always interested in finding references to the Golden Rule outside of “religion”. For me, the Golden Rule represents the tool for living out our ethics and ideals in all aspects of our lives. That has to include our work lives or it means nothing.
In Hyman’s article he references yet another employment lawyer. The focus of the article is to offer employers advice on how to avoid lawsuits from employees.
That motive should not seem self serving. The Golden Rule isn’t intended to turn us into money-losing doormats. Business still exists to both provide service to its customers and make a profit for its owners and shareholders. But Mutuality means that cause and effect are never separated.
If a manager follows the concept of the Golden Rule appropriately, they cannot help but serve the customer, employees and employer, and in the process benefit all.
Subversive isn’t it?
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