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Why must the capability already exist? With so many specializations, isn't it partly a company's duty to train?

• michaelochurch 13y ago
  With so many specializations, isn't it partly a company's duty to train? Ideally, yes. But most companies are short-sighted and tend to assume that if the talent isn't right there and ready, the task is too hard to be worth doing. Executives don't like taking risks, except for those that allow them to capture all upside while externalizing the downside. There's a Gresham's Law of executives. Forward-thinking, progressive people are driven out by quick-flash politicking psychopaths. I don't know of an easy fix for that problem.
• ahomescu1 13y ago
  Let's say you were a company CEO or head of HR, and decided to hire untrained people and then train them. How would you handle the following: 1) The reality that life is uncertain, and the company might be bankrupt a year from now. There's no sure thing in life, even huge companies disappear. If training a new employee would only pay off in several years, would you still do it? 2) At-will employment, where the employee could stick around for the training, then quit as soon as that's done. I think forcing the employee to stay for N months/years after that is a raw deal. 3) The fact that that employee isn't contributing as much to the company, but you're still paying him/her market wages. Would you offer them lower pay during the training period?