One bad apple can spoil the whole fruit basket...

Q:How do you weed out the bad apples in a big fruit basket known as organisation? (David Michalek, Bartlett, Ill.)
Ans: Its very simple. Start by putting down the pruning shears and picking up a buzz saw. Look, nothing hurts a company more than when the big bosses (knowingly or unknowingly) ignore, indulge or otherwise tolerate a jerk – or two or three – in the house. Such latitude on the part of these bosses undermines organisational trust and morale. Without those, the competitive linchpins of collaboration and speed are just plain harder – not to mention the fact that jerks in question take the fun out of work in the organisation. But before we talk about how to get rid of the jerks – or bad apples, as you derisively call them – let’s be clear about who these people are. In business, you can divide the employees into four categories. And how do you do that? By looking at them along two dimensions: how well they perform – that is, how often they make the desired numbers – and how well they demonstrate company values.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative