مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد شخصیت رهبر دستیابی به برتری پایدار – الزویر 2017

مقاله سال 2017

Regrettably, a systematic, thorough character assessment during the hiring process is seldom done. Often it is driven by the absence of negatives. However, to say, “I’ve heard nothing bad about this applicant’s character” does not mean the candidate has demonstrated courage, integrity, accountability, temperance, or other character dimensions. To develop an understanding of a person’s capacity to demonstrate temperance, for example, requires an examination of a person’s work history through the highs and lows of a business cycle.

There are several avenues through which the hiring process can be improved. Biodata may be helpful, and deep reference checking is essential. As well, in the interview setting, we need to ask job-related, well-constructed, and probing questions about how candidates have behaved in tough situations in the past, or how they think they would behave in specific situations in the future. We explore these three approaches next.