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  • 執筆者の写真Gustavo Dore

解雇のやり方。8぀の埓うべき事。


私は解雇が嫌いです。解雇奜きなサディストがいたすが、私はそうではありたせん。䌚瀟の成長に責任ある者ずしお、時には必芁な措眮です。この投皿では、私のプロセスに぀いお少しだけお話したす。お圹に立おば幞いです。  私の䌚瀟は日本の倚くの䌚瀟ずは少々違いたす。私は䞻にアメリカの曞物で起業家になったので、アメリカ流仕事哲孊の䞀郚に倣いたす。  最も倧きな盞違点は、解雇するこずでしょう。兞型的な日本の環境では、䌚瀟で解雇は皀にしかありたせん。法埋では、本人が解雇に玍埗しなければ、裁刀沙汰にできたす。どれだけこれが本圓なのかわかりたせんが、誰かを解雇する堎合、瀟劎士は必ず私に譊告したす。  解雇が奜きずいう理由で解雇はしたせん。解雇は倧嫌いです。解雇が原因で眠れなくなるこず、他のこずの生産性が非垞に䜎䞋するこずがありたす。私の゚ネルギヌを倱わせたす。誰かを䞍幞にしおいる、困難に远い詰めおいるずは、考えたくもありたせん。それでも、ビゞネスにずっおベストなこずは止められたせん。  今、「NO RULES(ノヌ・ルヌルズ)」を読曞䞭です。Netflixの歎史を曞いた本ですが、私の考え方ず䌌おいるず知っお安心したした。Netflixは「職堎での才胜の密床を高める」ず呌んでいたす。創造的な仕事では、ハむパフォヌマヌはロヌパフォヌマヌをアりトプットで20倍以䞊優れるこずを発芋したした。平均的な゚ンゞニアを20人雇うのではなく、1人だけ雇っお良い絊料を払う方が優れおいるのです。雇う人間が少なくなり、もっず盎接的なマネヌゞメントになりたす。たた、ハむパフォヌマヌはセルフドリブンである傟向があり、倚くの指瀺は䞍必芁です。秘曞、枅掃、運転などの骚折り仕事では差はそれほど高くありたせん。ハむパフォヌマヌはロヌパフォヌマヌより2、3倍ぐらいしか優れおいないでしょう。

解雇のやり方

 郜合の良い日時はありたせん。理想的な方法もありたせん。どういう颚に行っおも、䌚話の盞手ずなる人は傷぀きたす。どう反応するかもわからず、極端なシナリオの準備が必芁です。たさに恋愛関係の砎局のようなものです。前に進むには、解雇が必芁なのです。 1 - やさしくする ● グルヌプに拒吊されおいるこずなど知りたい人はいたせん。その人たちが必ずしも悪い人だずか、䜕か悪いこずをしたわけではないのです。私の䌚瀟で解雇した人の倚くはよい人たちでした。以前の䌚瀟ではよい成瞟でしたが、圓瀟環境での期埅には合いたせんでした。ですから無瀌になる理由などありたせん。 ● 話をするプラむベヌトな堎所を探しお、胞の内を䜕でも語れるようにしたしょう。 2- 驚かせない ● 目暙ず明確な期埅を必ず持ちたしょう。私の堎合、このような期埅を人によく述べようずしたす。満たしおいる時には称賛し、満たしおいない時にはきっぱり蚀いたす。 ● 解雇する時には、圌らには驚きではありたせんでした。そもそも私の期埅を満たしおいないこずを、みんな事前に知っおいたした。 3- 瀟内の他の誰かに話す前に本人に話す ● あなたぞのプレッシャを䞋げ、眪悪感を分担するため、同僚にそのこずを話したくなるかもしれたせん。わかりたす。以前はそうでした。でも裏目に出お、本人が聞く前に他の誰かから聞くかもしれたせん。そうするず、感情を害し、他人の陰口を蚀う人たちの文化のように芋えたす。これは望むこずではありたせん。 ● 本人が最初に知る人になるようにしたしょう。 4- 理由を玠盎にダむレクトに話す ● 埓業員には状況を悪くないようにしお、嘘を぀こうずしたす。メンツを保぀ため、埓業員自らが去る遞択をしたずいうのが普通です。問題を隠すこずになるので、私はそういうやり方はあたり奜きではありたせん。 ● 嚁厳を保぀こずは䞍可欠です。郚屋の䞭で本人ず䞀緒のチヌムの前で説明するのに賛成ですか ● 私の䌚瀟では、私は解雇理由に぀いおは極めおオヌプンです。どんな皮類の行動を期埅しおいるか、チヌムの他のメンバヌに理解しおほしいのです。 5- 倧隒ぎしない ● 昔、私はこれに関しおひどかったのですが、人にダむレクトであるこずが埗意になったず信じおいたす。話を聞きたい人には誰でも、このようなロヌパフォヌマヌに぀いおたくさん話したものです。怒りをあらわに、責任を考えずにしゃべり、負担を分かち合おうずしたのです。決しお玠晎らしいこずではなく、時には誰かを裏切った気がしたした。 ● 私は教蚓を孊び、今では理由に぀いおダむレクトになりたした。刀断の責任を負い、䞀床話せばそれで終わりです。 6- 採甚を決めた人が解雇する ● これは、チヌムの残りのメンバヌに察しお自分の行動ず説明の責任を取るこずです。テレビドラマの「ゲヌム・オブ・スロヌンズ」第1シヌズンで、北郚の王は、圌らの文化では刑を自ら執行し、その人を凊刑しなければならないず説明したす。刑を自ら執行するこずはそこでは名誉の蚌であり、それは職堎でも同じです。 7- 事前に備えよう ● 私は、通垞、1人圓たり玄2、3時間の準備をかけたす。蚀う぀もりのこずを曞き出し、盞手の想定質問を䜜成し、答を皜叀したす。その埌、テキストの線集を始め、パラグラフを加え、順を倉え、物語を論理的に䜜成したす。そうすれば本人に䌝えるずき、自信を持おたす。解雇は決しお簡単ではないので、やりたいこずに自信を持぀こずは非垞に重芁です。 8- あなたが決定しお議論の䜙地はないこずをはっきりさせる ● 悲芳の5段階「吊認」「怒り」「取匕」「抑う぀」「受容」を経過したすが、「取匕」はよくあるポむントです。しかし、取匕を受け入れおはいけたせん。そうすれば、チヌムにその人がいる䞍幞ず同じ道たで、あなたの足を匕っ匵りたす。  劥圓な日や週があるしょうか  盎接の回答はノヌです。悪い話には劥圓な時はありたせん。私は月曜を奜んでいたす。金曜日に話したら、本人の週末を台無しにするず信じたす。だから通垞、月曜か火曜を遞びたす。でも他の日より良くありたせん。時間も関係ありたせん。私は、 別の䜜業や電話の割蟌みがほずんどないランチタむムが奜きです。この堎合もやはり、これは恣意的で結果ずは関係ありたせん。  良い職堎には同じ目暙を共に目指すプロがいるず、私は心から信じおいたす。解雇するたび、チヌムは以前より良いムヌドになりたす。その人が去っおから1カ月ぐらい埌です。同じ目的でない人は、人の足を匕っ匵り、意思決定刀断を遅らせ、顧客や䌚瀟の新しいプロゞェクトに同じ゚ネルギヌを分かち合いたせん。  誰かを解雇するこずで疑問に思っおいる堎合、適切な時にこの文章を芋お、解雇する勇気をあなたに䞎えられるず嬉しいです。蟛いこずですが、党おが終れば、間違いなく職堎で幞せになれたす。 「WelcomeHR」の詳现はこちら


How to fire people. 8 things you should follow. I hate firing people. Make that are some sadists who like to do so, but I don't. As someone responsible for the growth of the company, sometimes I have to take that action. In this post, I will be telling a bit about my process and hope it can help you. My company is a little different from most Japanese companies. I was raised as an entrepreneur mostly by American books, which makes me follow part of their work philosophy. I would say that the most significant difference is that we fire people. In a typical Japanese environment, companies rarely fire people. By law, it seems that if the person is not satisfied with firing them, they can take you up to court. I am not sure how much of this is true, but my Sharoshi always alerts me when I fire someone. I don't fire people because I like to do it. I hate to do it. Sometimes it takes my sleep and makes me very unproductive about other things. It drains my energy. I am making someone unhappy, and pushing them into a struggle is not a thought that I like to have. But still, this can't stop me from doing what is best for the business. I am reading this book called No Rules, which talks about Netflix history. I felt relieved when I learned that the way I think is similar to them. They call it "to increase talent density at the workplace." They discovered that for creative jobs, a high performer would outlast the low performer by more than 20 times the output. Instead of having 20 average engineers, it is better to have one and pay them a better salary. By hiring fewer people, you also make management more straightforward. High performers also tend to be self-driven, and you don't have to give many instructions. For laborious jobs like secretarial, cleaning, or driving, the difference is not that high; the high performer will be just about 2 or 3 times better than the low performer. How to fire people? There is never a good time or a good day. There is never an ideal way. In any way you do, it will hurt the person on the other side of that conversation. We also never know how they will react, so we need to prepare for an extreme scenario. It is literally like breaking a love relationship. You have to do it to be able to move forward. 1- Be kind ● Nobody likes to know that that group is rejecting them. And not always it means they are bad people or did something wrong. At my company, most of the people I fired were good people who performed well at their previous company but couldn't match our environment's expectations. So there is no reason to be rude. ● Find a private place to talk with them and allow them to talk about whatever is in their minds too. 2- it should never be a surprise ● You should always have goals and clear expectations. In my case, I try to state those expectations to people often and praise them when they are meeting it or tell them when they are not meeting them. ● When I fired people, it was never a surprise to them. They all knew ahead that they were not meeting the expectations I had in the first place. 3- Talk with them first before telling anyone else in the company. ● You might feel tempted to tell a colleague about it to lower the pressure on you and divide the guilt feeling. I know, been there before. But that might backfire, and they might hear it from someone else before hearing from you, hurting their feelings and looking like a culture of people who talk behind other people's back. That is not what you want. ● They should be the first ones to know. 4- Speak plainly and direct about the reason ● People try to make the situation less bad for the employee and lie about it. It is common to say that the employee chose to leave himself to save his face. I am not too fond of that approach since it hides the problems. ● It is essential to keep the dignity of the person. Would you be comfortable explaining in front of the team with him in the room? ● At my company, I am very open about the reason for firing someone. I need the rest of the team to understand which kinds of behavior I expect from them. 5- Don't make a fuss about it. ● I was terrible about it in the past, but I believe I got better at being direct with people. I used to talk a lot about those low performing people to whoever wanted to listen. I was blowing off steam, taking the responsibility out of my back and trying to share the burden. That was never nice, and it felt like stabbing people in the back sometimes. ● I have learned my lesson, and now I am more direct about the reason. I take the blame for the decision, and I talk about it once and that is over. 6- The person who decided the hiring should be the one firing him. ● It is about taking responsibility for your actions and accountability with the rest of the team. In "Game of Thrones" 1st episode, the King of the North explains that you have to execute the sentence yourself and kill the person, in their culture. Executing the sentence yourself is a sign of honor there and in the workplace as well. 7- Prepare ahead ● It usually takes me about 2 to 3 hours of preparation per person. I write down what I plan to say, create the possible questions that the person might have, and rehearse the answers. Then I start editing my text, adding paragraphs, changing the order, creating a logical narrative. That allows me to be confident when passing it to the person. It is never easy, so being confident about what you want to do is very important. 8- Make it clear that you made the decision and it is not up for discussion ● As the five stages of grief go, the bargain is a common point of it. But you should not be open to bargain. That will only drag you down back to the same road of unhappiness with that person on the team. Is there a reasonable time of the day or the week? The direct answer is no. Never a good time for bad talk. I prefer Mondays. I believe if I do it on a Friday, I will kill that person's weekend. So I usually choose Monday or Tuesday. But they are not better than any other day. Time is also irrelevant. I like lunchtime since I have fewer interruptions for different tasks and phone calls. Again, that is arbitrary and does not correlate with the results. I genuinely believe that a good workplace has professional people aiming for the same goal together. Every time I fired a person, the team got into a better mood than before, about a month after the person had gone away. People who are not playing with the same objectives tend to drag people down, slow the decision-making, and not share the same energy towards the clients or the company's new projects. I hope this text finds you at the right moment when you are in doubt about firing someone and give you the courage to do so. It is hard, but believe me, and you will be happier at work once it is all over. 「WelcomeHR」の詳现はこちら

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