Question

Dear staff:

This is Yu.Zhou. May anybody who is good at the Human Resources in Health Care Organizations class help me with the question below. Thank you, sincerely.

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The idea of fit in hiring is important because it facilitates teamwork and positive working relationships. However, is there a risk that too much fit can be negative? If we only want people in our organization who are like us, is there the possibility that the organization may become stagnant and miss opportunities for improvement? Furthermore, can the idea of fit really be a disguise for simple prejudice bias? It has been suggested that cultural fit is an incredibly vague term, often based on gut instinct. The biggest problem is that while we invoke cultural fit as a reason to hire someone, it is far more common to use it to not hire someone. Another writer noted that in many organizations, the idea of fit "has gone rogue." Interviews with 120 decision makers found that many were using subjective personal criteria rather than screening for individuals who could succeed in the organization's culture. Furthermore, are there times when we may not want fit to be an element in the hiring process-might we find it helpful to hire people who specifically do not fit the culture of the organization? If so, under what circumstances would this be desirable? Might too much fit also interfere with diversity goals for the organization-are diversity and fit incompatible?

Answer this question:

Does hiring for fit have risks? (if the answer is yes, then why?) (if the answer is no, then why?)

Answer 1

ANSWER :

Hiring for fit is a process of recruiting people or candidates in an organization to reduce the risk of failure in a organization. The hiring for fit process is done by the leaders of human resource department to obtain better results for the company or organization. But fit for hiring become problematic, when people fails to perform their role by making the tasks challenging and complex to work in a organization. This can be called as a failed hiring process.

Yes, hiring for fit have risks while hiring persons in an organization. For a smooth working of an organization it is important to fulfill the needed requirements of people where the lack is present. After hiring for fit people has to adjust in organization environment to run work in smooth way. But due to excessive hiring of people or hiring people without screening of their capabilities and past experiences may develop risks and raise challenges for the organization, which has to face by all the members of the work area. Risks are going to develop when an unsuitable employee is hired by HR manager, hiring on a basis of personal relations, nil experienced persons, people having negative sided opinions, who are having the adjusting nature with other employees, making down of the given assignments, having low patience and tantrum levels during working premises can make the organization fail and enter into a zone of risk.