Hiring Your First Employee
A Step-by-Step Guide
by Fred Steingold
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Nolo |
Date 2008 |
Price $16.99 |
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on Nov 9 2008, feeney said:
"HIRING YOUR FIRST EMPLOYEE by Attorney Fred S. Steingold lives up to its sub-title: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE. The author takes a sole proprietor from making up his mind whether he really needs his first employee and the calculations of pros and cons through the latter's first day on the job. To anyone who has hired employees whether just for himself or for a larger oganization, this book offers a fine review of familiar turf. An old manager might read Steingold to see if his own insisted upon practices are there: such as an accurate job description, honest performance evaluations, recognizing good work. Yes, they are, along with many, many more good hiring practices and caveats. This straight from the shoulder, clearly written and illustrated manual has the feel of a first rate check-list that a pilot and co-pilot attentively go through while preparing for takeoff. Following all of Fred Steingold's recommendations does not assure success in hiring, but not following them makes a first-time employer more likely to face law suits, profit losses and general grief. ***
Some readers might complain that a whole psychic dimension is missing: looking into the potential employee's soul to divine his or her soul's makeup, into intangibles like loyalty, trustworthiness, devotion. Well, the book is a check list, not an encyclopedia. What occurs to me by way of broader context is that there is some theoretical moral risk in ever hiring anybody at all. I wonder if Immanuel Kant specifically brought up hiring a helper as an example of immorally treating a fellow human not as an end but as a means to your own end? Hiring someone to disappear into the maw of a faceless giant like the Bank of America or the Pentagon might mask that moral risk. But hiring someone for a day by day face-to-face collaboration -- the subject of HIRING YOUR FIRST EMPLOYEE: what is that if not downgrading a person with equal human dignity to being just a means to your end? Candidates would remain your social equal were you to select them to join your Lodge or Rotary Club. But to be your salesmen? Your receptionist?
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