{"id":590,"date":"2009-11-01T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-11-01T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T03:15:18","slug":"you-hr-rep-doesnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Your HR Rep Doesn't Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read, for exceptionally boring reasons, a paper<\/a> about the fact that hiring managers and HR reps don’t know the research and facts about their job.<\/p>\n

For example, most of those surveyed believed the following, apparently incorrect, things:<\/p>\n

1. Giving employees a bigger say in decision-making leads to better performance than giving them clear goals to achieve.<\/p>\n

2. On average, conscientiousness predicts job performance better than intelligence.<\/p>\n

3. Higher intelligence is a negative factor when the job requires little or no skill.<\/p>\n

There were a lot more, but these three are pretty good examples. These are basic things that managers (and especially HR people) should know.<\/p>\n

The researchers who wrote the paper were trying to figure out why companies routinely ignore the data. Was it because the managers didn’t know the research, or that they weren’t able to put the research into action for some reason? In the end, they determined that it’s the former.<\/p>\n

By the way, the number one predictor for high performance: Intelligence. And it’s never a negative factor, whether the job is grave digger or CEO.<\/p>\n

By the way again, drug testing actually seems to be worth something. A quote:<\/p>\n

Norman et al. (1990) drug tested more than 4,000 applicants and then followed them through more than 1 year of employment. Those who tested positive had a 59% higher absenteeism rate and a 47% higher involuntary turnover rate. Parish (1989) found significant results for disciplinary actions, and Winkler & Sheridan(1989) for vehicular accidents, absenteeism, and medical costs. See also McDaniel et al. (1988).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read, for exceptionally boring reasons, a paper about the fact that hiring managers and HR reps don’t know the research and facts about their job. For example, most of those surveyed believed the following, apparently incorrect, things: 1. Giving employees a bigger say in decision-making leads to better performance than giving them clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}