Saturday, July 17, 2010
*Concept from Chapter 7*
In Chapter 7, there is the concept, "Hidden Agenda's". "A hidden agenda is a personal goal that lies below the surface and that can get in the way of the group performance." (Trenholm. P. 189) Which is why interviews are so important, such as job interviews, the companies try to feel out the candidate. Both interviewer and interviewee are trying to feel out one another, to see if it will fulfill their needs. Which is also why references are so important or knowing someone within the company, because this has more of the creditability affect. Because at the end of the day, you never know someones hidden agenda and what their motives really are. It can waste both parties involved time and the company money on training a new person and having them just quit a couple months later. This definitely takes a toll on the group members performance and may cause a snow ball effect, with other members wanting to quit as well. I've been a Marketing Coordinator in the past and have noticed such behaviors. And during the weekly training I held, I pointed out the bad behaviors from those that had a hidden agenda and that the company would not tolerate behavior such as that.
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Hey LINDERZ143:
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post. You know, I really enjoyed your concept choice and how you related it to something like the employment interview process. Until I began working in my current position, where I was able to Chair two job search processes, I had NO IDEA how much the hidden agenda "agenda" was thriving in the educational setting. I mean, many of us know it's "not WHAT you know, but WHO, etc., etc.," and I was naive to think that notion was primarily held in corporate America-ummm newsflash to me! In one of the two searches I sat on, didn't Chair though, I slowly came to realize how certain members of the committee were already "slating" someone into the vacant position, leaving the process only to formality and to "appease" Human Resources. You're right on when you say these are "bad behaviors" and poor ethical practices in my opinion because the equal opportunity is lost when hidden agendas conquer the process.
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