Is it more important to hire the best employees or fire toxic employees?
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One of the basic policies of businesses is to discover exceptional employees and try to retain them. So that some companies do everything to keep their first-level employees and give them more benefits than other employees. But is it always necessary to find and hire so-called number one employees with extraordinary intelligence and skills or superstars?
According to a 2015 study published by Harvard Business School that analyzed data from more than 60,000 employees and workers, hiring a superstar employee saves them an average of $5,303.
But how important is it to avoid continuing to work with toxic employees (people whose behaviors are harmful to a company)? In the same research, on average, firing each toxic employee can save a company $12,489. This savings includes court costs and insurance fines and possible subsequent financial consequences.
So why do all companies focus on hiring good employees and ignore the toxic employees within their portfolio?
Toxic people can call other employees and isolate them, so that they eventually leave the company, and they constantly pump negative energy into the team. They will turn good and first-level employees into poor and negative employees, and will cause irreparable losses to each set.
One reason for not paying attention to toxic employees is that it is very difficult to identify these people, and most of the time they pass themselves off as a first-level employee and a superstar. Sometimes a company even tries to attract someone with a very strong resume, but in reality, they have added another toxic employee to their portfolio.
More efforts to identify toxic employees
Toxic employees are not directly problematic and may be in a company and group for months and years, but they are never identified as the main cause of bitter events and successive failures.
Like an insidious cancer, toxic employees slowly destroy the performance, attitude and morale of other employees and hardly show themselves.
But how can you recognize an apparently satisfactory and satisfactory but toxic employee? There are three main approaches:
People who are highly self-centered and selfish are highly susceptible to becoming a toxic employee. People who rarely see others but spread their behavior and belief to others and strongly influence them.
People who are overconfident. Self-confidence that does not rely on a special talent or effort and inner skill and mostly originates from a self-righteousness and pride.
People who constantly say that rules should always be followed for everyone. Sometimes doing something requires flexibility and constant process change, and these people show resistance.
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This post is written by Moj_maryam