LESSON 2

Who Works Here and Who Stays?

Values-based leaders need to hire and promote employees in sync with their company culture. First, they must find the right employees, then they need to hire and retain them. In the end, it may be necessary to let them go, but VBLs can do this in a humane way that maintains the dignity of the former worker.

This chapter focuses on three decisions regarding employment:

1. Join us;

2. Stay with us;

3. Leave us.

The first section investigates the hiring process and the perks sometimes necessary to attract good candidates. During salary negotiations, new employees may make close to, or even more, than established associates, creating salary compression, inversion, and tension.

Retention can be critically important ...

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