
Firing - jayliew
http://cdixon.org/2012/06/19/firing/
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physcab
This article is half as good as it could be. The underlying assumption here is
that you already know an employee is bad and that you need to fire them. But
how do you know an employee is bad?

This is a question that no one seems to get right, unless its fairly obvious.
If they stole something, no brainer. If they sexually harassed an employee,
_should_ be a no brainer. And if the company is in a financially distressed
position, it may be unpleasant to fire someone, but atleast its
understandable. What if the company is healthy and employee did nothing
obviously wrong?

Then I guess, you look at the quality of their work. But judging quality is
subjective, and you're likely to have a sliding scale depending on employee's
past experience and delta to their start date. And what about periodic
reviews? What about quarterly objectives? What about what _other_ employee's
think? How long do you warn an employee before you go ahead with it?

I think one of the better ways of dealing with firing is how it was handled in
grad school. At my school, you had a series of qualifying examinations and you
had a committee. The rules were pretty clear: 2 chances to pass and if not,
goodbye. One of the tests was an oral examination in front of the committee of
5. There weren't any clear answers, but the committee would convene and in an
hour they'd have a decision with lots of feedback. I failed my first attempt.
But guess what? After that, I honed in on their feedback, worked my fucking
ass off and passed my second attempt with flying colors.

I don't see this happening at many (or any) companies. I'm not sure why, but
IMHO employers use the "at will termination" too liberally. Either that, or
they let the bad employees stay far too long. Sometimes I wonder if a second
chance would help bubble good employees to the top when you had previously
mis-classified them as bad or vice versa. Firing scares the shit out of
people...why not make this process less of a surprise than it has to be.

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mbenjaminsmith
The role of a manager is _not_ to determine the fire-worthiness of current
employees. Putting employees in front of a firing squad on a regular basis and
having "half-fired" employees working in a state of limbo would murder company
morale.

Any good employee would be out the door as soon as they were handed a "second
chance". They would use that chance just long enough to find a better job, if
they didn't quit outright. Truly "bad" employees would likely stick around
(lack of motivation to move, inability to move, spite, etc) and wreak havoc on
your business.

Firing is sometimes a business decision, sometimes due to someone actually
doing harm to your business but often the last in a series of management
failures. It's a last resort but if you've reached that point just get it over
with.

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adrianhoward
_The role of a manager is not to determine the fire-worthiness of current
employees_

Then whose job is it?

 _Any good employee would be out the door as soon as they were handed a
"second chance". They would use that chance just long enough to find a better
job, if they didn't quit outright. Truly "bad" employees would likely stick
around (lack of motivation to move, inability to move, spite, etc) and wreak
havoc on your business._

That's not been true in my experience. The good employees tend to appreciate
the heads up, and work with you to either fix the problem (which may be as
much your problem as theirs) or move out in a productive way.

The bad ones tend to realise the jig is up and move themselves out ASAP, or
rapidly foul up again giving you the evidence you need to shift them out
without the decision being seen as arbitrary by the rest of the company.

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tgrass
_which may be as much your problem as theirs_

My attitude at worked had declined immensely. My communication with coworkers
suffered and important pieces of information from clients was lost lost on my
desk.

I was given a list of behaviors of mine that were frustrating my project
managers.My first reaction was flippant. But after an hour I knuckled down,
read the list thoroughly, and drafted a personal action plan for each item.
The next day I went onto my review, handed the 3 man management team copies of
my plan, took control of the review and went through each point one by one and
how I would correct it. And then, after all their concerns were addressed, I
told them that they were failing me too, and gave them three actionable
measurable goals for improving my career there.

It is like a marriage. There is a power balance. Each party needs to know what
they want and be able to communicate it in clear actionable measurable goals.

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adrianhoward
_Each party needs to know what they want and be able to communicate it in
clear actionable measurable goals._

If I had more than one upvote to give you'd get it :-)

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john_horton
There's a famous paper in economics that looks at the long-term labor market
outcomes for people that were laid-off because of plant closings versus those
were just laid-off:
<http://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jlabec/v9y1991i4p351-80.html>

The plant-closing people generally fair better: the idea is that the
market/future employers infer that the firm used their discretion when making
regular layoffs (using it as a chance to get rid of the low performers) but
that no negative inference is warranted in the case of plant closings.

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chris_wot
"The good people bounce up, the bad ones bounce down" - That's a very broad,
sweeping statement. I'd love to know how many people he's fired/known to be
fired to see if this is true. I mean, does he constantly watch the working
career of the folks he fired? How would he know whether the "bounce up" or
"bounce down".

Incidentally, how the heck does one "bounce _down_ "?

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loteck
Thought the same thing.

"At the time, I thought this just made him feel better about himself. Over
time, I’ve seen the wisdom in what he said."

No, you were right the first time. "The good ones" and "the bad ones"? I feel
sorry for the "ones", period.

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cdixon
I think you guys are being a bit too literal. This is how people talk in
colloquially, and it's a common phrase in the hedge fund world where I was
working at the time.

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chris_wot
If I took it _literally_ , then I'd be imagining "good" employees literally
bouncing around, and "bad" employees... well, I have no idea how to bounce
down, so perhaps my imagination is not as good as it should be. :-)

However, I still don't see how you can back up your claims that good employees
seem to recover better than bad employees. I don't see how you could know!

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adrianhoward
_However, I still don't see how you can back up your claims that good
employees seem to recover better than bad employees. I don't see how you could
know!_

You'll be surprised at the number of times you encounter folk you've worked
with again. I suspect you're also more likely to stay in touch or hear more
about the "good" employees.

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nostromo
> The good people bounce up, the bad ones bounce down.

That's tautological if you're judging by the future result.

But that's just a nitpick. Nice post. #4 is a great way of framing a bad
situation.

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chime
As I read points 1-3, I kept thinking "how do you fire someone very high up in
the chain of command who is careful enough to never make a fireable offense
and is also important enough that customers will raise eyebrows (e.g. CTO of a
tech company or CFO of a finance company)?"

Then I read:

> 4) The other choice is firing everyone.

When you look at it this way, rest of the reasons don't really matter. It is
indeed possible for just one person to bring down them morale of their
department, direct reports, or immediate team members. That in turn infects
the rest of the company over time, slowly lowering the bar for performance,
quality, and enthusiasm. And that can most certainly bring about 4) in the
not-too-distant long term.

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_delirium
That's true, but _firing_ one person can also cause surprisingly large
problems for morale, depending on the person and circumstances. The classic
case is the underproductive but friendly and intelligent person who has a good
rapport with everyone in the office, good answers/comments in discussions with
coworkers, willingness to do miscellaneous odd jobs and help people out, etc.
Axing that person can depress the mood around the office and cause others to
view management as harsh, especially if they had a higher estimation of the
person's productivity than management did.

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mindcrime
_The classic case is the underproductive but friendly and intelligent person
who has a good rapport with everyone in the office, good answers/comments in
discussions with coworkers, willingness to do miscellaneous odd jobs and help
people out, etc._

In that case, I'd question if that person is _truly_ unproductive. More likely
management just doesn't understand how to properly value their actual role,
which may not be reflected by their job title. In that case, instead of firing
them, it might be better to either:

A. understand the actual value they deliver and leave well enough alone

or

B. create a new title for them, which reflects the value they produce and then
hire somebody else for their old position.

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citricsquid
Something I've been curious about relating to this topic, what do you do in a
situation where an ex-employee (or ex co-worker) is lying about their position
with the company?

Are you allowed to sue for misrepresentation (if such a thing exists) or is it
pretty much _deal with it_? For example someone claiming to have been with the
company for a year longer than they really were in a role they never held (eg:
someone working in customer service at Facebook from 2008 - 2009 then claiming
on their resumé they worked in the engineering department from 2008 - 2011).

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scott_w
Possibly not, unless you can prove it's causing harm to your company.

The hiring person can certainly sue somebody for lying on their CV e.g. after
calling your company and finding out they misrepresented their position.

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stellar678
Sue? How about telling them you don't hire people who misrepresent themselves,
then not hiring them. Why in god's name would you sue a person for lying on a
resume?

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scott_w
I don't know how things work in the USA, but in the UK, your references don't
get contacted until after you're hired, usually on a probation period.

If the wage you're being paid is high enough, it could be worthwhile taking
someone to court to claim it back, as they're effectively defrauding your
company.

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DanielRibeiro
Even then, some startups, like Github, have managed not fire anyone in 4
years[1].

Of course, there are people that say that Github is a special case[2]. Which I
believe is a nice way to deflect the hard question: "how can we do better?"
Which, as it seems, is the very question that Chris Dixon is tackling.

[1] <https://twitter.com/timanderson/status/178093828111208449>

[2] <http://swombat.com/2011/3/30/github>

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swombat
I don't think I'm so much deflecting the question as much as just highlighting
that Github _is_ a special case, so one should take extra care when
translating their insights and lessons to one's business.

Github is a product for geeks (few of those take off), build by a founder team
consisting exclusively of uber-geeks, with the exact right timing (wasn't
possible before, and someone else would have done git hosting later - and did,
but less well), in a winner-takes-all market (which, to be fair to them, they
engineered - source code hosting didn't use to be a winner-takes-all market,
but github's social features made it so). Moreover, Github lent itself very
well to a viral spread model (doesn't work in most cases, and is hard to bolt
on to an unsuitable product), and so had less need for sales efforts than most
B2B products.

I'm not putting down Github's team (they executed brilliantly), or even the
lessons that they garnered - those are worthwhile lessons to pay attention to
and learn from. However, be careful when translating those to your startup,
which is probably a very different beast and may crash and burn if you just
apply Github's lessons directly!

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DanielRibeiro
I obviously completely agree with you (being a long time reader of your blog).
The point is not that Github is a special case, but that _all_ startups are a
special case, and every founder has to figure out what works and what it
doesn't for their own.

I have spinned up the contrarian touch a bit in order to exactly get this kind
of reaction, and to raise this conversation, which I don't think we have
enough.

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swombat
> I obviously completely agree with you (being a long time reader of your
> blog).

Hey, you don't have to agree to read my articles :-) Disagreers are welcome
too ;-)

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adrianhoward
There's two reasons for firing somebody in my experience. Hiring a bad
employee and hiring the wrong employee.

This list is mostly about the first kind I think - because of the line "Some
people who get fired react by fixing their weaknesses". The wrong person
doesn't have "weaknesses" to fix. You hired a round peg, when you should have
hired a square one. Its your fault - not theirs.

(Okay - the "bad" employee hire is your fault too, but it's a different kind
of mistake.)

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dsirijus
If you'd replace "firing" with "dumping your gf/bf", this would end up in teen
column.

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ebiester
Judging by what I've seen of adult relationships, it's a column that's needed
by more than just "teens."

We, as a species, are afraid of rejection, and we hate being the ones to
reject another person. I don't know if it's evolutionary or so ingrained in
every culture as to be effectively evolutionary, but somewhere in our caveman
brain, we're kicking someone out of a small tribe and leaving them to die,
something to be taken very seriously.

Further, we've told these people to quit their current stable jobs, or start
making plans with the income they have, rather than thinking of it as fleeting
or temporary. It feels like an awful human thing to do, especially to a
likable person.

Many of the firing advice columns I've seen are as simple as "it's not the end
of the world for either of you." And that's a lesson that takes more than one
link on HN to get.

(I think it's also a lesson that's hard in most of our dating lives, from what
I've seen..)

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dsirijus
Don't really agree with that one. Forcing a relationship to work makes one re-
evaluate oneself which might work for better, not worse.

On the other hand, it's time and labour intensive process, and at some point,
you really need to cut it.

So, in the article, I basically have issue with point 2, "doing it early". No,
you need to try to make it work, and make that process beneficial for both
parties. Work it up to a certain point, of course.

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Professoroak
I keep reading about how managers fire employees and I can't help but think
there was something under the surface going on when I was fired. I wasn't
given any warning or explanation, and it came as a shock to coworkers that I
worker closely with. Unfortunately, I'm take with trying to describe this
situation to every potential employer anyway. Its great to hear that maybe my
case was there exception, and that most employers are more transparent and
open about performance expectations and how their employees are doing at their
job.

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slurgfest
Sorry to hear that.

Just because people are over you in an organization doesn't mean they are wise
and mature. Of course, if you are in the position to hire and fire then you
get to make reality to some extent because you have more power. The employee
has to pretend the boss knew what they were doing even afterward on penalty of
being blackballed. It's not so easy to get an employer blackballed because
somebody else always needs the money. And the culture says that a complaining
employee is a liability, and if someone was fired or not hired then there is
probably a good reason not to hire them.

Hiring and firing are just another job, and they are done by the same smart,
average and stupid people doing other jobs. Let's not pretend that these
decisions only ever depend on sound, objective calls completely grounded in
consideration of facts and business.

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spaghetti
I enjoyed this article. The emphasis on firing someone and still being friends
or peers is a nice separation between business and relating to other people.

I'm curious about employer/business owner and worker relationships going
forward. There's major downsides to full-time employees: it's difficult to
hire someone that's skilled and gets along with others and firing a full-time
employee is not a pleasant experience for anyone. There's also additional
overhead associated with benefits and hr departments.

The modern tech ecosystem has eliminated much of my need to hire other full-
time employees. Github takes care of version control. Mixpanel takes care of
analytics. Even Airbnb simplifies traveling to the extent that I don't need
any help. I can just pay contractors and freelancers for the work where I do
require help.

The point is that full-time employees are looking less and less attractive to
someone like me who's starting a new company. The path of least resistance is
to just adjust my business structure or model to minimize the number of full-
time employees I might need in the future.

There are certainly upsides to having full-time employees. And many companies
require them. I think the extent to which I'm avoiding full-time employees
long-term is interesting. I doubt I'm the only person considering this. So I'm
curious how the employer/business owner and worker relationships will change
in the next decade or so.

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adrianhoward
_The point is that full-time employees are looking less and less attractive to
someone like me who's starting a new company. The path of least resistance is
to just adjust my business structure or model to minimize the number of full-
time employees I might need in the future._

I don't know if this is generally true. But it's something it's a behaviour I
noticed in myself, and others, over the years.

People starting their first company don't like hiring full time employees.
They see a lot of extra responsibility - and a loss of control that they get
from working with contractors.

People starting their Nth company positively look forward to the time they can
hire full time employees. They realise that they can't control or manage
everything themselves, and the quicker they can move from being the keystone
that holds everything together the better it's going to be for the long term
survival of the organisation.

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gav
There seems to be a inflection point where the company gets big enough where
working with contractors becomes more beneficial again.

Whether this is to be flexible around seasonal demand or scaling up for
particular projects, this can avoid long term costs involved having full-time
employees. I've seen that larger organisations are far more willing to bear
the short-term costs of flexibility than smaller ones.

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goochtek
I liked the article. The part about firing early is very true. It's like
ripping a Band-Aid off quickly rather than slowly. Just get it over with as it
may affect your future and everyone else's, as the article also mentions.

One thing that caught my eye though was in the comments. The user claims that
the article could be put another way " why hiring right team is crucial for
startups". I don't agree with that at all. Someone may look good on paper and
interview great, but they may not be a good fit for the company. It may be
anything from conflicts with other staff to consistent lateness. You can't
find these out in an interview. You also can't find out by checking references
as many employers will give glowing references to staff they want to get rid
of but can't.

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kunle
Spot on post. So many times when talking to seasoned/experienced founders,
this comes up as the thing that most founders (seasoned or first timers) get
wrong. To quote Max Levchin (on #2): "When there's a doubt, there is no
doubt."

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slurgfest
> "When there's a doubt, there is no doubt."

Too bad employees can't think this way about the companies they are at.

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tedunangst
Why not? I've left companies when things went sour. I know lots of people who
have.

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tokenadult
Firing is gut-wrenching for the person who does the firing, and for the person
who gets fired (of course). The submitted blog post makes the point that
sometimes, despite the short-term wrenching of guts, everyone is better off if
an employee who doesn't fit in one workplace moves on to another.

Several of the interesting comments here ask what connection there is between
how someone is hired and whether or not someone will be fired. Even if it's
not possible to guarantee that you'll never hire someone whom you'll later
need to fire, it sounds like all of us want to reduce the risk of making
hiring mistakes that will lead to unpleasant experiences later with employees
who just don't fit. With that in mind, I'd like to ask some questions.

What hiring procedures are you using now? How structured are your hiring
procedures? How much looking ahead to reducing the probability of future
firing is built into your hiring procedures?

Hacker News readers who haven't seen it recently may be interested in a FAQ
document about hiring employees, based on suggestions I've received from
several participants here in previous discussions of how companies hire. Many
hackers think many companies hire based on crazy procedures. Research suggests
that most companies in most places don't use the best available hiring
procedures. I'd appreciate comments about the hiring procedures FAQ below.

There are many discussions here on HN about company hiring procedures. From
participants in earlier discussions I have learned about many useful
references on the subject, which I have gathered here in a FAQ file. The
review article by Frank L. Schmidt and John E. Hunter, "The Validity and
Utility of Selection Models in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical
Implications of 85 Years of Research Findings," Psychological Bulletin, Vol.
124, No. 2, 262-274

[http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...](http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%20Validity%20and%20Utility%20Psychological%20Bulletin.pdf)

sums up, current to 1998, a meta-analysis of much of the HUGE peer-reviewed
professional literature on the industrial and organizational psychology
devoted to business hiring procedures. There are many kinds of hiring
criteria, such as in-person interviews, telephone interviews, resume reviews
for job experience, checks for academic credentials, and so on. There is much
published study research on how job applicants perform after they are hired in
a wide variety of occupations.

The overall summary of the industrial psychology research in reliable
secondary sources is that two kinds of job screening procedures work
reasonably well (but only about at the 0.5 level, standing alone). One is a
general mental ability (GMA) test (an IQ-like test, such as the Wonderlic
personnel screening test). Another is a work-sample test, where the applicant
does an actual task or group of tasks like what the applicant will do on the
job if hired. Each of these kinds of tests has about the same validity in
screening applicants for jobs, with the general mental ability test better
predicting success for applicants who will be trained into a new job. Neither
is perfect (both miss some good performers on the job, and select some bad
performers on the job), but both are better than any other single-factor
hiring procedure that has been tested in rigorous research, across a wide
variety of occupations. So if you are hiring for your company, it's a good
idea to think about how to build a work-sample test into all of your hiring
processes.

Because of a Supreme Court decision in the United States (the decision does
not apply in other countries, which have different statutes about employment),
it is legally risk to give job applicants general mental ability tests such as
a straight-up IQ test (as was commonplace in my parents' generation) as a
routine part of hiring procedures. The Griggs v. Duke Power, 401 U.S. 424
(1971) case

[http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196...](http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196978&q=Griggs+Duke+Power&hl=en&as_sdt=2,24)

interpreted a federal statute about employment discrimination and held that
general intelligence tests used in hiring that could have a "disparate impact"
on applicants of some protected classes must "bear a demonstrable relationship
to successful performance of the jobs for which it was used." In other words,
a company that wants to use a test like the Wonderlic, or like the SAT, or
like the current WAIS or Stanford-Binet IQ tests, in a hiring procedure had
best conduct a specific validation study of the test related to performance on
the job in question. Some companies do the validation study, and use IQ-like
tests in hiring. Other companies use IQ-like tests in hiring and hope that no
one sues (which is not what I would advise any company). Note that a brain-
teaser-type test used in a hiring procedure could be challenged as illegal if
it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants. A company
defending a brain-teaser test for hiring would have to defend it by showing it
is supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to
successful performance on the job. Such validation studies can be quite
expensive. (Companies outside the United States are regulated by different
laws. One other big difference between the United States and other countries
is the relative ease with which workers may be fired in the United States,
allowing companies to correct hiring mistakes by terminating the employment of
the workers they hired mistakenly. The more legal protections a worker has
from being fired, the more careful companies have to be about hiring in the
first place.)

The social background to the legal environment in the United States is
explained in many books about hiring procedures

[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=SRv-
GZkw6...](http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=SRv-
GZkw6TEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA271&dq=Validity+and+Utility+of+Selection+Models+in+Personnel+Psychology&ots=iCXkgXrlOV&sig=ctblj9SW2Dth7TceaFSNIdVMoEw#v=onepage&q=Validity%20and%20Utility%20of%20Selection%20Models%20in%20Personnel%20Psychology&f=false)

[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=SRv-
GZkw6...](http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=SRv-
GZkw6TEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA95&dq=Validity+and+Utility+of+Selection+Models+in+Personnel+Psychology&ots=iCXkgXrnMW&sig=LKLi-
deKtnP20VYZo9x0jfvqzLI#v=onepage&q=Validity%20and%20Utility%20of%20Selection%20Models%20in%20Personnel%20Psychology&f=false)

Some of the social background appears to be changing in the most recent few
decades, with the prospect for further changes.

<http://intl-pss.sagepub.com/content/17/10/913.full>

[http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/Fryer_R...](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/Fryer_Racial_Inequality.pdf)

[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=frfUB3GWl...](http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=frfUB3GWlMYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA9&dq=Validity+and+Utility+of+Selection+Models+in+Personnel+Psychology+%22predictive+validity%22+Duke+Power&ots=5O9Hx_E1vY&sig=g-zERWztBWq3h4guEuv9VVkTh8I#v=onepage&q=Validity%20and%20Utility%20of%20Selection%20Models%20in%20Personnel%20Psychology%20%22predictive%20validity%22%20Duke%20Power&f=false)

Previous discussion on HN pointed out that the Schmidt & Hunter (1998) article
showed that multi-factor procedures work better than single-factor procedures,
a summary of that article we can find in the current professional literature,
in "Reasons for being selective when choosing personnel selection procedures"
(2010) by Cornelius J. König, Ute-Christine Klehe, Matthias Berchtold, and
Martin Kleinmann:

"Choosing personnel selection procedures could be so simple: Grab your copy of
Schmidt and Hunter (1998) and read their Table 1 (again). This should remind
you to use a general mental ability (GMA) test in combination with an
integrity test, a structured interview, a work sample test, and/or a
conscientiousness measure."

[http://geb.uni-
giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8532/pdf/prepri...](http://geb.uni-
giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8532/pdf/preprint_j.1468_2389.2010.00485.x.pdf)

But the 2010 article notes, looking at actual practice of companies around the
world, "However, this idea does not seem to capture what is actually happening
in organizations, as practitioners worldwide often use procedures with low
predictive validity and regularly ignore procedures that are more valid (e.g.,
Di Milia, 2004; Lievens & De Paepe, 2004; Ryan, McFarland, Baron, & Page,
1999; Scholarios & Lockyer, 1999; Schuler, Hell, Trapmann, Schaar, & Boramir,
2007; Taylor, Keelty, & McDonnell, 2002). For example, the highly valid work
sample tests are hardly used in the US, and the potentially rather useless
procedure of graphology (Dean, 1992; Neter & Ben-Shakhar, 1989) is applied
somewhere between occasionally and often in France (Ryan et al., 1999). In
Germany, the use of GMA tests is reported to be low and to be decreasing
(i.e., only 30% of the companies surveyed by Schuler et al., 2007, now use
them)."

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sparknlaunch
Can better hiring method avoid the need to fire staff? Could you create a
culture that retains the right people and forces wrong people to leave?

Looking at previous work experiences, you sometimes wonder how some people
ever got through the interview process.

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adrianhoward
_Can better hiring method avoid the need to fire staff? Could you create a
culture that retains the right people and forces wrong people to leave?_

No. It assumes that the "wrong" people now were the "wrong" people from the
start. Your business changes. People change. The combination of those two
factors mean that sometimes you have no choice but to fire somebody.

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heliodor
Your point about businesses changing reminds me of the arguments I've read in
the past that there's too much full time employment and not enough
freelancing. The idea is to get the best person for the task then move on
instead of constantly trying to adapt everyone to the latest departmental
needs.

