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Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|hr|}}{{d|Lateral hire||n|}} An experienced person you have hired for a role in your organisation instead of promoting an existing employee into it. On Peter Rabey’s ''{{plainlink|1=https://open.spotify.com/episode/3woA7FWD7uMM6vqB6WCsBn?si=hA61RZ68T9O3dPQumtO8Ig|2=Leadership Learns}}'' podcast, {{author|Rory Sutherland}} makes an excellent point about lateral hiring into the management layer: not only does the candidate come in without any of her own instituti...") |
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An experienced person you have hired for a role in your organisation instead of promoting an existing employee into it. | An experienced person you have hired for a role in your organisation instead of promoting an existing employee into it. | ||
On Peter Rabey’s ''{{plainlink|1=https://open.spotify.com/episode/3woA7FWD7uMM6vqB6WCsBn?si=hA61RZ68T9O3dPQumtO8Ig|2=Leadership Learns}}'' podcast, {{author|Rory Sutherland}} makes an excellent point about lateral hiring into the management layer: not only does the candidate come in without any of her own [[institutional capital]] but, upon her arrival, she annihilates | On Peter Rabey’s ''{{plainlink|1=https://open.spotify.com/episode/3woA7FWD7uMM6vqB6WCsBn?si=hA61RZ68T9O3dPQumtO8Ig|2=Leadership Learns}}'' podcast, {{author|Rory Sutherland}} makes an excellent point about lateral hiring into the management layer: not only does the candidate come in without any of her own [[institutional capital]] but, upon her arrival, she annihilates that of existing staff who will report to her, by the simple expedient of not having a clue who they are or what they do. | ||
Her tendency will be to guage competence through means of quantitative management techniques — [[metrics]] — which in turn will incentivise accommodating behaviour. ''[[If you ask a silly question you will get a silly answer]]. | |||
Lateral hires thereby often have the effect of stimulating [[Lateral quitter|lateral quitting]] — not all of it willing — which is generally a matter for regret. | |||
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*[[Lateral quitter]] | |||
*[[Mediocrity drift]] | |||
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