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Role of Employees
As organizations rely more and more on teamwork, they also are likely to make sure employees get more and more involved in selecting new coworkers. Often the role of employees is to help determine how well an applicant is likely to fit into the company culture, at Rosenthal international ,a travel-management company, applicant managerial jobs might be asked to play. a game of softball with the company team or help repair a broken fence.the objective isn’t to test the applicant’s skill at softball or fence mending it’s to lerarn weather the applicant is able and willing to be nice. At Worthngton Industries, an Ohio-based steel processor, employees play an even bigger old. There the final selection decision is made after the applicant has completed a 90-day “probation period” at the end of the probation, an employee council of about the peers formally votes on whether the new hire should be allowed to stay on presumably ,at Worthington, peers make their judgments primarily on the basis of the new hire’s performance level. At Worthington, profit sharing accounts of 40 percent of each employee’s total pay. Knowing that a good hiring decision translate into more profits, current employees are motivated to help ensure that only productive people are allowed to join the company
Involving employees in the selection process is generally a good idea and is practice that seem to be growing .when employees are involved in the selection of new team members. they seem to become more committed to making sure the new hired succeed. As employees become more involved in this important decision process, it’s essential that they understand the process and receive training about how to make appropriate decision. just as manager can be influenced by many factor other than an applicant’s ability to perform well, so too are employees susceptible to making decisions for the wrong reason