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No, that is not true. There could be situations where an employee talks directly to people, moving up the leadership ladder within a store and nothing is done. That is not the same as going over the heads of people without talking directly about the issue with the sources of the problem.

Part of growing up is supposed to be learning how to talk to people directly about these things. Unfortunately, we have increasingly become a society in which we enable people, particularly younger people, to not have to grow up. As you can see from these very situations, we do no favors when we...

Precisely the problem - This approach cultivates fear and suspicion. It also cuts out the legs of the supervisor by enabling some employees to learn that they can circumvent their supervisor and "tell on them." It also propagates the culture of not speaking directly to people about issues...

I don't. I've found this kind of thing undermines supervisors. Never, never, never have this kind of conference without the supervisor in question unless there is some sort of concrete evidence that there is some kind of significant violation occurring. When you exclude the supervisor in...