5/25/2023 0 Comments The employees a workplace novelShe's forgetting things, she being weirdly contradictory and accusatory, and she's out of the office now more than she is in it. Or, at least, she has done so in the past. The CEO (who, by the way, brought Rosa in from another company where he was a young go-getter and she was his seasoned mentor) needs Rosa to make hard decisions. Now, for a variety of reasons, she has to consider what legacy she will leave behind. In Jillian Medoff's new novel, This Could Hurt (HarperCollins, 2018), Rosa is a relatable 60-something widow who has worked her way up the executive ladder. But she must balance what she wants for them against the day-to-day and long-term needs of the struggling business she works for. What would she do instead of this job? "Knit? Become a throwaway person?" She wants her employees to work hard, achieve excellence and be rewarded for it. She loves her job: "I'm like the Wizard of Oz, handing out hearts, brains and courage to people in need." She dreads retirement. But she is friendly, she is thoughtful, and she is generous with extended leave when there's a family emergency. She knows employees lie, cheat and steal. She thinks telecommuting leads to wasted time. There are 600 of them, spread out over offices in three states. Rosa, the CHRO of Ellery Consumer Research Group, cares intensely about her employees.
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