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All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.

— Jay Samit

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

— Danny Meyer

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

— Tom Rath

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

— Howard Schultz

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

— Bruce Barton

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

— Robert Metcalfe

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

— Margaret Hamburg

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for.

— Stuart Pearce

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

✗Opposing Perspectives

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

— Ricardo Semler