title: Low-maintenance management: using a simple classification to rate employees' productivity and support requirements.
abstract: Employees vary in their productivity and their need for guidance, support, and other inputs that may be called "maintenance." This article provides a guide to classifying your team members by a gross ratio of perceived managerial inputs to productivity outputs. It also gives some approaches to understanding your own reactions and dealing with the needs of each group.
authors.affiliation: jennifer_obrien@sbcglobal.net
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: O'Brien
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency / Q000145:classification*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States