There is a smaller margin for error today in hiring and promoting people
into key positions, and a greater need to target development efforts to ensure
that they really make a difference. A bad senior-level hire or promotion can
severely damage a company’s external brand, affecting customer trust and
loyalty, and resulting in lost commercial opportunity.
-Brian Clapp
It
is very painful to see young generation taking wrong decision of their career
as well as the company’s for their growth. In this competitive world the people
are putting up their best to get the best. Most of the time in an effort to
hire senior at the low cost companies hire a person who is not eligible for
that position, it is like “Placing a wrong person
in right place”. Getting position is difficult; true but to remain / maintain
that position is more difficult, unless the leaders
have leadership qualities it is very difficult to justify the position and
leadership quality can only be earned by the experience not by the degree,
administrative experience is one such thing that cannot be taught by training
it can be only learned by the experience. When the company hires an
inexperienced person on the senior position no doubt they successfully close
the vacancies, but the situation becomes like carrot and stick theory
motivational approach “The Carrot and
Stick approach of motivation is based on the principles of
reinforcement and
is given by a philosopher Jeremy Bentham, during the industrial revolution.
This theory is derived from the old story of a donkey, the best way to move him
is to put a carrot in front of him and jab him with a stick from behind. The
carrot is a reward for moving while the stick is the punishment for not moving
and hence making him move forcefully.
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What
does the company lose in this?
· Person is totally
misfit in the culture
· Productivity loss
· Increase in rejection
/ poor quality of work
· No solution only
complaints or excuses
Loss of moral of
other employee
· The subordinates will
always be dissatisfied
· Increase in
organizational politics
Last but not the least financial losses
· Cost of hiring again
Let’s understand through this story “A Wrong Man in Workers' Paradise”
“There was a group of people who worked hard
their whole life, GOD kept them separately in one place thinking that since
they are hardworking they will do some productive work, and one fine day
because of the mistake of gatekeeper one man who never worked in his life
entered that group. Because of his inexperience in work he started distracting
the worker by building useless thing….
Read more http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/17th-january-1931/12/a-wrong-man-in-workers-paradise
How
does it impact the personal himself/herself who is appointed wrongly?
If
you are inexperience fresh or 2-3 years’ experience which is not ok for the
position of Assistant manager/ Manager or above,
Since
you have been given the position Management will expect you to work as per that
position.
You being inexperience in managerial skills you
will feel proud and ego of your position and there will be nobody to guide you
what right and wrong because you are the boss.
You will lose confidence because at the age of
learning you opted the wrong option, but when you realized that you are left
out far behind it is too late.
· Mind thinks that you
have learnt everything, accepting mistakes also takes lots of courage.
· At the end you are
nothing with no ethics, confidence, and knowledge.
Making
the right choice in hiring is very important for the success of any
organization, same way opting for right career and position is important for
the success of candidate, hence saying “No” is good sometimes.
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