This is a *great* reminder: The Biggest Hiring Mistake You Will Ever Make http://t.co/GOJk9Qpi #business #hr #hiring

U.S.-specific, but still useful info.

There are two type of factors hygiene (status, compensation, security, etc.) and motivation factors (challenging work, recognition, responsibility, etc.).

"Although you can pay people to want what you want, incentives are not the same as motivation. True motivation is getting people to do something because they want to do it, in good times and in bad."

Feld shares some thoughts on structuring the compensation conversation when hiring.

We examined the psychometric properties of the Big Five personality traits assessed through social networking profiles in 2 studies consisting of 274 and 244 social networking website (SNW) users. First, SNW ratings demonstrated sufficient interrater reliability and internal consistency. Second, ratings via SNWs demonstrated convergent validity with self-ratings of the Big Five traits. Third, SNW ratings correlated with job performance, hirability, and academic performance criteria; and the magnitude of these correlations was generally larger than for self-ratings. Finally, SNW ratings accounted for significant variance in the criterion measures beyond self-ratings of personality and cognitive ability. We suggest that SNWs may provide useful information for potential use in organizational research and practice, taking into consideration various legal and ethical issues.

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RT @ShellyKramer: RT @thinkbigkc: 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses #ceo #entrepreneur #hr

RT @michaelmayrde: "Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise" #management #mgmt #hr

Me: why are you leaving?
Him: because they have bigger monitors.
Me: (incredulous) are you kidding? we can get you a bigger monitor.
Him: it’s not just me — everyone has big monitors.
Me: why is that so important?
Him: because it shows how much they value my time. The extra money to cram that many more pixels into my retina must be worth it to them.

Scaling a #dev team #hr #startups