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a troubled employee

English translation: employees with problems

11:31 Dec 12, 2008
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
English term or phrase: a troubled employee
"A human component is concerned with employee well-being. Examples in this area include setting a programme to assist troubled employees, and designing an employee health programme to reduce insurance costs"

It is in the context of the human dimension of the manager's work
Valery Kaminski
Belarus
Local time: 02:36
Selected answer:employees with problems
Explanation:
It's extremely generic.It basically means helping employees who have problems: whether financial, personal or health- or work-related is not specified, probably because the text is only giving an example.
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Marie-Hélène Hayles
Local time: 01:36
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4 +9employees with problems
Marie-Hélène Hayles
4 +2работник, оказавшийся в трудной ситуации
mas63


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
работник, оказавшийся в трудной ситуации


Explanation:
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mas63
Russian Federation
Local time: 02:36
Native speaker of: Russian
Notes to answerer
Asker: Я пока так и написал ;)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  inmb: the answer is correct, but the language pair was EN-EN :)
10 mins
  -> Indeed! I have not noticed. Sorry for that.
agree  Alexandra Taggart
6 days
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
employees with problems


Explanation:
It's extremely generic.It basically means helping employees who have problems: whether financial, personal or health- or work-related is not specified, probably because the text is only giving an example.

Marie-Hélène Hayles
Local time: 01:36
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  inmb
55 mins
agree  Gary D: an employee with a few personal problems
5 hrs
agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
5 hrs
agree  Marlene Blanshay
11 hrs
agree  Afsaneh Pourjam
13 hrs
agree  Vicky Nash
21 hrs
agree  Phong Le
2 days 9 hrs
agree  Pham Huu Phuoc
2 days 15 hrs
agree  Tania McConaghy: troubled is perhaps a euphemism for tabu problems.....
2 days 16 hrs
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