Human Resources 101

Forget succession management and career planning. Here’s a simple test for placing employees. Put a couple of dozen bricks in a room, add your prospective candidates and leave them alone for a few hours. When you return:

• If they are counting the bricks, put them in the accounting department.
• If they are re-counting them, put them in auditing.
• If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
• If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in planning.
• If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategic planning.
• If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.
• If they are sleeping, put them in reception
• If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in information technology.
• If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.
• If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in sales.
• If they have left for the day, put them in marketing.
• And then last but not least: If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved, put them in top management.

From: Monkey Business!

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