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SOME SIGNS OF DETERIORATING WORK PERFORMANCE
WORK PATTERNS
- INCONSISTENCY IN QUALITY OF WORK
- HIGH/LOW PERIODS OF PRODUCTIVITY
- POOR JUDGMENT/MORE MISTAKES
- THAN USUAL AND GENERAL CARELESSNESS
- LAPSES IN CONCENTRATION
- DIFFICULTY IN RECALLING INSTRUCTIONS
- DIFFICULTY IN REMEMBERING OWN MISTAKES
- USING MORE TIME TO COMPLETE WORK
- MISSING DEADLINES
- INCREASED DIFFICULTY IN HANDLING
- COMPLEX SITUATIONS
ABSENTEEISM
- ACCELERATION OF ABSENTEEISM AND
TARDINESS, ESPECIALLY MONDAYS AND
FRIDAYS, BEFORE AND AFTER HOLIDAYS
- FREQUENT UNREPORTED ABSENCES
LATER EXPLAINED AS "EMERGENCIES"
- UNUSUALLY HIGH INCIDENCE OF COLDS,
FLU, UPSET STOMACH, HEADACHES
- FREQUENT USE OF UNSCHEDULED
VACATION TIME
- LEAVING WORK AREA MORE THAN
NECESSARY (E.G., FREQUENT TRIPS TO
WATER FOUNTAIN AND BATHROOM)
- UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE FROM THE JOB WITH DIFFICULTY IN LOCATING EMPLOYEE
- REQUESTING TO LEAVE WORK EARLY FOR
VARIOUS REASONS
ACCIDENTS
- TAKING OF NEEDLESS RISKS
- DISREGARD FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS
- HIGHER THAN AVERAGE ACCIDENT
RATE ON THE JOB
MOOD ACTIONS
- APPEARS TO BE DEPRESSED OR ANXIOUS
- IRRITABLE
- SUSPICIOUS
- COMPLAINS ABOUT OTHERS
- EMOTIONAL UNSTEADINESS
- MOOD CHANGES
- WITHDRAWN OR IMPROPERLY
- TALKATIVE
- SPENDS EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF
TIME ON THE TELEPHONE
- VIOLENT
- AVOIDS TALKING WITH SUPERVISOR REGARDING WORK ISSUES
RELATIONSHIP TO OTHERS ON THE JOB
- OVERREACTION TO REAL OR IMAGINED CRITICISM
- AVOIDING AND WITHDRAWING FROM PEERS/SUPERVISORS COMPLAINTS FROM CO?WORKERS BORROWING MONEY FROM FELLOW EMPLOYEES COMPLAINTS OF PROBLEMS AT HOME SUCH AS SEPARATION, DIVORCE AND CHILD DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS
- PERSISTENT JOB TRANSFER REQUESTS
PHYSICAL SIGNS
- WEARINESS, EXHAUSTION
- UNTIDINESS
- YAWNING EXCESSIVELY
- BLANK STARE
- SLURRED SPEECH
- SLEEPINESS (NODDING)
- UNSTEADY WALK
- SUNGLASSES WORN AT INAPPROPRIATE TIMES
- CHANGES IN APPEARANCE AFTER LUNCH OR BREAK
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