But they also need to be willing to fire the new employee. So reports Forbes contributor Jeff Hyman. "You owe it to him, to yourself, and to your remaining employees to do it yourself," Hyman, a recruitment and retention expert writes. "This decision--and the discussion--isn't something to be delegated to Human Resources or to another manager."
Hyman acknowledges how tough it was for him to fire a recruit he hired, especially in circumstance where that person was lured away from a secure job. Then there are the guilty thoughts of what being fired means for the person's family.
But "if you want to be a great manager--if you want to build a great organization--you must learn to fire people," Hyman notes.
Bad hires are common, with 46% of new hires and 50% of new executive hires having flopped within 18 months of coming on board or being promoted, Hyman said citing statistics.
"If you don't fire these underperforming employees or move them into more suitable positions, you're hurting your company, your own career, and the employee who will never succeed in their current role," Hyman writes.