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Our foreman is great. He doesn't need to worry about employee disrespect though. He is an extension of me or tricky. If he is being disrespected, not listened to, or generally having personality/production issues, all he would need to do is tell me. He is wherever I can't be so it is as though they are disrespecting me. As long as that is clear, your employees should listen to whoever is the person you tell them to listen to, female, male, young, old, gay, straight, etc..
The foremans job is not to babysit personalities. It is to manage the work as effectively as possible. If I have been clear, laid out the most effective strategy, given the proper amount of materials, the correct tools, and the correct number of laborers, my foreman should have an easy time of getting my goal fulfilled. As he is excellent, he will remind me about such and such's limitations, that the materials yard might close at...., the whatever hasn't been working well and is out of action til its repaired... and then we can come up with a better strategy.
If it was his job to deal with a handful of problem people that I wasn't willing to step in and bring the thunder, I would expect him to get a LOT less done every day.
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