people.

. Your employee manual has a phrase that says,

"employees may be terminated with or without cause."

. You have a high turnover rate.

. You have pay discrepancies between people in the

same job which is not explained by tenure or superior

performance.

. You want to "crush your competition."

. Your product or service damages the environment.

. Your employees are afraid of you or of your managers.

. You have high profit margins and low wages.

. You have high wages and lose money.

. You offer bonuses, but not to all levels of workers in

the company.

. You treat one level of worker with more respect and

dignity than other levels.

. You hire part-time workers as a strategy to avoid

paying benefits to workers instead of as a means to

handle variable workloads.

. Your advertising is "technically correct" but couldn't

stand the "sniff test." ("Four out of five dentists

surveyed say our toothbrush is best" when you picked

the dentists to survey.)

. You lay off a large number of workers and they didn't

know it was coming, but you did.

. Your business is struggling and you hide it from

employees interviewing for jobs.

. You favor Christians over non-Christians in human

resource matters.

. You exploit weaknesses and disadvantageous

circumstances in suppliers or prospective employees in

order to get their products, services or labors for

unreasonably low dollars.

. Your employment practices pit workers against each

other in ways that exceed healthy competition. ("The

bottom two workers in each department are gone....")

. You use pricing as a way to destroy a competitor's

business.

. You have economic models for pay scales at the lower

end of the organization, but no models to determine

true economic value of the senior management of your

company.

. You make workers endure the "walk of shame" (having

them personally escorted off the property) after a layoff

or dismissal that isn't due to performance issues on

the part of the employee.