Are there any issues between you and your boss? Apparently your boss wants to hurt you where it hits. Apparently he wants to include your name so that in reference check some adverse comments can be posted against you or to cause termination or to harass you so that you tender resignation with immediate effect and your dues can be squared off in FNF statement and thus he can show that he has saved some money of the company.
In some industry and some companies it is expected from bosses and it counts in their so called performance. May be your boss is also facing poor performance and wants to show performance on such counts and save his job.
Obtain printout of the “Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)” from employee portal/HR portal of the company or from concerned HR personnel. Find out who are the stake holders in PIP e.g. who can initiate? What are the parameters for inclusion in PIP? Who has to approve the inclusion e.g. which boss of your boss and HR personnel involved in it?
Either you patch up with your boss or apply your goodwill, rapport, and skills of persuasion, persistence, negotiation, reasoning to the exceptional level and manage to escape from the list and do not fall under the axe, and approach even higher bosses and HR. Let their be a word that you are not to be included in PIP. This shall be the best option as you shall get relieving letter, FNF settlement without any struggle and issues.
Having issued acceptance of resignation if now company includes you in PIP it shall be clear zealous and vindictive approach. But are you willing to agitate?
Another point is that in today’s market scenario some companies do not mind PIP etc as attrition is an issue, and show is to be run.
In majority of the companies PIP is a disguise and is framed to include employees chosen for separation.
Ideally PIP should be aimed at diagnosing the reasons why an employee is not able to deliver the performance expected from employee in the dept, division…..function of the employee or tasks assigned to him, and address his training needs so that he can be trained and developed to perform better up to the expectations of the company.
This is also to satisfy the labor laws claiming that company did its best for the employee.
Banking, Insurance, telecom companies are amongst the ones who exercise PIP as they feel that employee has exhausted all of his links and now does not have anyone left in his social circle to sell the products of company {good or bad} and now fresh blood should be inducted. The new employees shall also cost less.
The employees who become competent to sell in the secondary market without having any feeling for worthiness of the product and benefit to customer can stay.
This is also a tool which is abused by the line management and HR to subdue the employees and shunt them out by forcing resignation, inserting adverse comments in personnel file with zealous and vindictive mindset.
Notice period is counted in service period. Employee has to perform regular duties during notice period also.
You can not force the company to include or exclude you from PIP.
If company is hell bent it may not think twice to step on your toes.
Be smart.
