You might observe people around the world attaining job positions, social fame, or large followings despite showing poor performance and a lack of respect for social and ethical values. These individuals work across various fields and levels, and there are logical reasons behind this phenomenon.
A Simplified Definition of Employment and Employee Selection Mechanisms
Many people may not realize the difficulty, effort, and cost involved in selecting the right employee. Sometimes, an organization hires a recruitment agency to handle the process, even if it has an HR department. This is often because the organization wants HR to focus on other responsibilities. During recruitment, the organization considers job design, which defines the scope of work, job tasks, rights, duties, administrative relationships, communications, and the position within the organizational structure. HR then conducts job analysis to gather information that can be used to redesign the job to increase efficiency. Through job design and analysis, the organization develops a job description. This document outlines the job title, tasks, rights, responsibilities, required qualifications, and skills, which are essential for the job advertisement. The organization may then recruit internally or externally. Internal recruitment involves appointing a current employee to a vacant position within the organization, while external recruitment involves selecting highly qualified candidates from outside, such as experienced employees, government staff, or university graduates.
If internal recruitment is not feasible, the organization can initiate a standard recruitment process through its HR department or a recruitment agency. Both typically follow similar procedures, posting job announcements on the organization’s website, in newspapers, or on social media. Applications are collected and screened, candidates are shortlisted, assessments are conducted, and top candidates are invited for interviews before making the final selection.
Why Are Incompetent Individuals Selected and Promoted Globally?
Choosing an incompetent employee—whether intentional or not—can manifest in several ways:
Conflicting or random decisions
Procedural or protocol errors
Wasted funds or increased costs
Chaos, high turnover rates, and conflicts between employees and departments
Inability to understand and solve problems
Inability to act in emergencies or sudden changes
Brain drain, as talented individuals move to foreign markets
Example Case
In one country, the Ministry of Health implemented a policy that conceals medical errors from patients to protect medical staff. If a patient requires treatment due to a medical error, they receive care without being informed of the error in diagnosis, procedural complications, or issues with sanitation. This policy results in increased medical errors, negligence, lack of accountability, conflicts with patients and their families, rumors, public distrust in hospitals, and a preference for treatment abroad. Patients often seek multiple medical opinions, putting additional pressure on hospitals and requiring security forces to manage disputes. Later, the government introduced a law with fines and jail time for anyone who assaults medical personnel. This decision, pressured by the health ministry, resulted in some medical staff provoking patients to secure compensation. Effective employee protection involves training in managing difficult situations, not shielding employees from accountability. Poor decisions often lead to further bad decisions, unintentionally involving other organizations.
Reasons Behind Selecting Incompetent Individuals
1. Controlling the Board: Appointing a controllable CEO or board member in a publicly traded company enables manipulation, such as selling a class of shares for ownership benefits.
2. Maintaining Control: Management may choose employees to retain control by withholding or selectively revealing decisions, procedures, and regulations.
3. Risky Decisions: Inexperienced employees are sometimes tasked with decisions involving risks or backlash that more experienced employees may avoid.
4. Political Influence: Intelligence agencies or hostile countries may influence elections to control decision-making or incite instability within the organization.
5. Personal Bias: Vendettas lead to employees being transferred to unsuitable positions.
6. Task Overload: Assigning employees to manage two separate departments may cause fatigue and diminished productivity.
7. Racial, Family, or Religious Bias: Employment biases may occur based on family, race, religion, or social class.
8. Health Conditions: Physical or psychological conditions, or traumatic events, can affect work performance.
9. Criminal Backgrounds: Employees with criminal, social, or ethical issues are more easily manipulated.
Tips for Employees Who Appear Incompetent
1. Organizational Guide: The organization’s manual provides guidelines on structure, communication, tasks, and job procedures.
2. Proper Job Design: Well-designed jobs improve performance and reduce conflicts and inefficiency.
3. Legal Reference: A legal reference within any organization is crucial for resolving issues and gathering further information.
4. Delegation: If newly appointed employees face challenges, they can delegate decision-making to deputies, advisory committees, or experts.
5. Unpredictable Behavior: Due to mental health issues, some employees’ behaviors are unpredictable. Suspensions may be necessary until a proper diagnosis is conducted, especially in jobs involving public safety.
6. Organizational Independence: Organizations should prevent security and intelligence agencies from intervening in employee recruitment.
7. Training: Employee protection should be provided through training, awareness, and guidance.
8. Awareness of Professional Boundaries: Employees should be aware that certain violations, such as negligence causing harm or data breaches, are criminal offenses.
9. Continuous Learning: Knowledge in fields like psychology, sociology, economics, politics, technology, and history can help employees make better decisions and excel professionally.
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