Question

You are the hiring manager within your organization, and you are tasked with the requirement to locate the best candidates to fill a few current openings. Your company is in need of individuals who can work effectively with a diverse population, who have previous experience leading others, and who display an eager attitude and willingness to learn from corporate training. Compile a PowerPoint presentation with your analysis of how hiring practices and effective leadership can enhance performance measures. Explain how this applies to your company and/or discipline. In your PowerPoint, be sure to address the following questions/topics.

Describe specific ways effective leaders can hire key people to serve as prominent leaders and subordinates. Include your rationale.

Examine the effectiveness of training efficiently to build on employee knowledge and skill sets with respect to your area or field of business.

Include company or organizational examples, as relevant.

Compare and contrast the different types of challenges leaders face when hiring and training new members.

Answer 1

For hiring good candidates the key points to rember would be:

Education qualifications, academic record, past experience and professional certifications

The power point ppt would include:

Slide 1: Hiring practices and effective leadership to enhance performance measures

Slide2: Outline:

• Some good hiring practices

• Role of leadership to enhance performance

• Effectiveness of training

Slide 3: Some good hiring practices

•Clearly defined Job description and specifications

•Do not post internal job openings

•Use catchy titles to attract people

•Create Job descriptions into story to connect people with the role

•Try to modify the job according to person for better employee fit

Slide 4: Role of leadership in enhancing performance

• Leadership is a process through which leaders keep their followers motivated and give direction to their followers.
• There are diferent types of leadership styles followed by managers in organisations.
• To enhance the employees performance and to keep the work staff motivated the best style to use is democratic style of leadership.
• This style encourgages employees to dicuss and participate in important decision making process. Also the employees feel motivated and part of team. It helps in bringing best out of employees without huting them. It leads to open dicussions which helps in building employees skills and motivation.

Slide 5: Importnace of training of staff:

•Helps in employee development

•Brings out new and latent talent of employees

•Keeps in touch with new and changing technologies

•Encourages employees to learn and apply new learnings in their work

•Helps in gap identification and filling those gaps

•Helps in building organisational knowledge

•Increases chances of internal promotions

Some challenges that leaders face while hiring new members are:

• Attracting right candidates
• Not using modern methods of recruitment
• Finding right caandidate fit according to Job roles
• Lack of trained candidates
• Lack of experience