{"id":5601,"date":"2013-08-07T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweekinimaging.com\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:19:38","slug":"improve-your-hiring-process-define-your-companys-work-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/feature-articles\/2013\/08\/improve-your-hiring-process-define-your-companys-work-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Hiring Process – Define Your Company\u2019s Work Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"rocky-topofsteps\"<\/a>Work ethic is about a set of ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors. Before you can look for work ethic synergies and possible conflicts from a job applicant you must first define your organization\u2019s corporate culture.<\/em><\/h5>\n

You know the drill. You are in recruiting mode and looking to hire a new employee.\u00a0Is this a fire drill for you or a planned and proactive activity? Do you have standardized procedure for recruiting? You probably receive a r\u00e9sum\u00e9; check the applicant\u2019s qualifications,\u00a0job history, and salary requirements.Then, if the applicant seems qualified, you schedule a face-to-face interview, right? The actual interview process can vary greatly from company to company.\u00a0The types of questions that are asked during the face-to-face interview are dependent on the experience of the person doing the interviewing. The type of testing that is done is different for each industry, and can vary from company to company within an industry.\u00a0So, why should you continue to read this article?\u00a0Read it because there is an idea that you can adopt that will improve your overall hiring results. The ability to rate a person\u2019s work ethic.<\/p>\n

Define Your Corporate Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work ethic represents how a person behaves on the job. Work ethic is culture driven and is linked to upbringing, education, and life experience. Work ethic is about a set of ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors.\u00a0Before you can look for work ethic commonalities and possible conflicts from a job applicant, or existing employee, you must first define your organization\u2019s corporate culture. To begin, see how you would answer these questions for your organization.<\/p>\n

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  1. When employees talk to customers or clients how should they present themselves?<\/li>\n
  2. How does your organization communicate its business strategy, mission, vision, and values to employees \u00a0and customers?<\/li>\n
  3. How does your organization communicate behavioral expectations such as rules, standards, and operating procedures?<\/li>\n
  4. What is your expectation for how employees spend their time when they are on the job?<\/li>\n
  5. How would you define your organization\u2019s management style?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you cannot answer one or more of these questions, you may have discovered a GAP in your ability to clearly define your corporate culture.\u00a0If you do not like how you answered a question, you may have found a weakness in the definition of your corporate culture.<\/p>\n

    Define Your Corporate Work Ethic<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The next step in the process is to define how your corporate culture defines your corporate work ethic.\u00a0 What are the behavioral values you look for from an employee? To illustrate this idea, assume that I answered the above questions and have clearly defined my corporate culture.\u00a0 Now, I can ask questions of a potential employee to assess how their personal work ethic aligns to my corporate work ethic.<\/p>\n

    I recommend that you create your own set of questions in writing and that you use a five-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly disagree with response to strongly agree with response, to rate how the individual answered each question.<\/p>\n

    Sample Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Based on your past work experience how would you describe presenting yourself in a professional manner at all times.<\/li>\n
    • Have you ever worked for a company that used semi- annual performance reviews; if you have how you did use your education and work experience to achieve higher performance ratings?<\/li>\n
    • What would you do to maintain top-of-mind awareness concerning our mission statement?<\/li>\n
    • We use written position descriptions and a set of standard operating procedures, how would you handle any conflicts that arise in the course of doing your job?<\/li>\n
    • You are required to work 40+ hours a week, are required to request time off at least 40 hours in advance, and cannot work any overtime hours unless they are preapproved by your manager. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of these policies?<\/li>\n
    • Our company uses a consultative management style. In other words, decisions take into account the best interests of the employees and the company, communication is generally downward, and\u00a0employee feedback is encouraged to maintain morale. Tell me about the management style of some of your previous employers and how you functioned in those environments?<\/li>\n
    • There are three things that symbolize our success; high ratings on customer satisfaction surveys, our corporate logo, and our profit at the end of the year. How would you support those symbols?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Improve the Odds – Hire the Right Person<\/strong><\/p>\n

      We all come from different cultural backgrounds.\u00a0Growing up in New York, Texas, Los Angeles, India, or South Africa has an impact on work ethic.\u00a0Working for an entrepreneurial managed company or a professionally managed company or a large bureaucratic public company can also have an impact on work ethic. Unfortunately, we sometimes hire people with the right qualifications who have a conflicted work ethic.\u00a0Eliminate that scenario from your experience and improve your ability to hire the right person.\u00a0Assess the job applicant\u2019s work ethic before you make a final hiring decision.<\/p>\n

      You will be glad that you did.<\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Work ethic is about a set of ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors. Before you can look for work ethic synergies and possible conflicts from a job applicant you must first define your organization\u2019s corporate culture. You know the drill. You are in recruiting mode and looking to hire a new employee.\u00a0Is this a fire drill for you or a planned and proactive activity? Do you have standardized procedure for recruiting? You probably receive a r\u00e9sum\u00e9; check the applicant\u2019s qualifications,\u00a0job history, and salary requirements.Then, if the applicant seems qualified, you schedule a face-to-face interview, right? The actual interview process can vary greatly from company to company.\u00a0The types of questions that are asked during the face-to-face interview are dependent on the experience of the person doing the interviewing. The type of testing that is done is different for each industry, and can vary from company to company within an industry.\u00a0So, why should you continue to read this article?\u00a0Read it because there is an idea that you can adopt that will improve your overall hiring results. The ability to rate a person\u2019s work ethic. Define Your Corporate Culture Work ethic represents how a person behaves on the job. Work ethic is culture driven and is linked to upbringing, education, and life experience. Work ethic is about a set of ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behaviors.\u00a0Before you can look for work ethic commonalities and possible conflicts from a job applicant, or existing employee, you must first define your organization\u2019s corporate culture. To begin, see how you would answer these questions for your organization. When employees talk to customers or clients how should they present themselves? How does your organization communicate its business strategy, mission, vision, and values to employees \u00a0and customers? How does your organization communicate behavioral expectations such as rules, standards, and operating procedures? What is your expectation for how employees spend their time when they are on the job? How would you define your organization\u2019s management style? If you cannot answer one or more of these questions, you may have discovered a GAP in your ability to clearly define your corporate culture.\u00a0If you do not like how you answered a question, you may have found a weakness in the definition of your corporate culture. Define Your Corporate Work Ethic The next step in the process is to define how your corporate culture defines your corporate work ethic.\u00a0 What are the behavioral values you look for from an employee? To illustrate this idea, assume that I answered the above questions and have clearly defined my corporate culture.\u00a0 Now, I can ask questions of a potential employee to assess how their personal work ethic aligns to my corporate work ethic. I recommend that you create your own set of questions in writing and that you use a five-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly disagree with response to strongly agree with response, to rate how the individual answered each question. Sample Questions Based on your past work experience how would you describe presenting yourself in a professional manner at all times. Have you ever worked for a company that used semi- annual performance reviews; if you have how you did use your education and work experience to achieve higher performance ratings? What would you do to maintain top-of-mind awareness concerning our mission statement? We use written position descriptions and a set of standard operating procedures, how would you handle any conflicts that arise in the course of doing your job? You are required to work 40+ hours a week, are required to request time off at least 40 hours in advance, and cannot work any overtime hours unless they are preapproved by your manager. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of these policies? Our company uses a consultative management style. In other words, decisions take into account the best interests of the employees and the company, communication is generally downward, and\u00a0employee feedback is encouraged to maintain morale. Tell me about the management style of some of your previous employers and how you functioned in those environments? There are three things that symbolize our success; high ratings on customer satisfaction surveys, our corporate logo, and our profit at the end of the year. How would you support those symbols? Improve the Odds – Hire the Right Person We all come from different cultural backgrounds.\u00a0Growing up in New York, Texas, Los Angeles, India, or South Africa has an impact on work ethic.\u00a0Working for an entrepreneurial managed company or a professionally managed company or a large bureaucratic public company can also have an impact on work ethic. Unfortunately, we sometimes hire people with the right qualifications who have a conflicted work ethic.\u00a0Eliminate that scenario from your experience and improve your ability to hire the right person.\u00a0Assess the job applicant\u2019s work ethic before you make a final hiring decision. You will be glad that you did.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}