Among other qualities, a recruitment ad for the position of CEO listed the following as essential: ‘Continuous monitoring of all the departments and taking stern action against employees for shirking their duty, inefficiency, lapses, non-performance, etc.'
It went on to add: ‘The candidate should be competent, sharp, a strict disciplinarian, and a hard taskmaster.'
‘He should be able to maintain a high degree of discipline with firmness, have exceptional leadership abilities, not allowing latitude at any cost. He must be capable of handling senior-level people whose habit it is to make excuses followed by arguments, thus, wasting the time and energy of staff. Persons who are not tough and do not have high moral values and are unable to take strict action like live-wires need not apply.'
Comments on social media are scathing. Some contend that the company has created a negative perception for itself as an employer by putting out such an ad — one that reflects poorly on its own staff.
There's another view: in a market where everyone claims to be the best place to work, here's a company that has stated facts upfront — leaving no room for doubt in the incumbent's mind on what to expect as CEO.
Should the company have given out the internal reality at the cost of negative perception?
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Keywords: recruitment ad, social media, negative perception