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Originally Posted by Halx
I have an employee who was recently hired. He was doing as well as one could have expected in the circumstances we hired him in, but after a week he began to plateau when he should have been accelerating. My boss and I teamed up to send him a message that he was a very vital part of the team and that he needed to step up. We instantly saw results... even though we had to shoulder some of his work ourselves. The point is that we took a different approach with this guy and it paid off.
Do we really need to get rid of the people who aren't performing?
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I'm baffled as to how you could evaluate a new employee after just a week. I work in a very different field (medicine) and if our new hires manage to do anything useful at all the first week, without causing any major distractions we're really psyched.
On the other hand, our hospital's corporate culture is one where middle management mediocrity and even general ineptitude seem to be tolerated, and the same mediocre folks spend decades accomplishing very little. Maybe we DO need to re-look at some things.
Excellent and interesting topic BTW.