Chapter 29 Chapter 26 Matching between superiors and subordinates

Before Li Wenhua left, he found two candidates for Lala's Beijing office supervisor position. Liszt happened to be on a business trip in Beijing, so he interviewed these two people first. He felt that they were both worth considering, so he asked Lala to go to Beijing to see and choose one. . Lala read two resumes and asked Liszt: "What do you think are the characteristics of these two people? Which one is more suitable?" Liszt said: "I will not say my opinion first, so as not to affect your point of view. After you have met both of them, we will discuss our opinions."

When Lala met the first one, she felt that the other party was a bit of a mother-in-law, her pace was slow, and her words and actions were not focused enough, so she didn't really want her. Goodbye to the second one, this man is Zhou Liang, in his early 30s, looks capable, speaks professionally and behaves professionally, with the politeness and arrogance hidden in the unique politeness of a young man in Beijing. According to his resume, he used to be a human resources administrator at ICI. Currently working as a HR manager in an unknown Indian IT company. Lala came up and asked him: "Why do you apply for this position?"

Zhou Liang honestly said that because he wanted to be an HR manager, he jumped to this IT company at the beginning of the year, but he couldn't accept the corporate culture there at all.After this tossing, I was exhausted and depressed, and I understood that I was not suitable for development in a small company. Now I just want to return to a professional large company and be an honest supervisor. Lala thought, this is also good, only after suffering and comparing, will she cherish this position, so as not to be too motivated and not satisfied. Ask again. With 8 years of recruiting and administrative experience, this is exactly what she needs.

In particular, Zhou Liang talked one, two, three, four, in a clear way, which was very appealing to Lala. Lara thought for a while and asked him, "Are you quick-tempered or slow-tempered?" Zhou Liang said, "I'm in a hurry." Lala was quite satisfied with what she heard. Her team has a heavy workload now, and only quick-tempered people can do the work quickly. Lala made up her mind to use him. She called Liszt right away, without asking what the boss meant, and explained her inclination directly. Liszt originally thought that another candidate was more suitable. Since Lala wanted Zhou Liang himself, he didn't want to interfere too much with her decision.

He recalled that he vaguely felt during the interview that Zhou Liang hid a kind of self-esteem in his politeness, and he had eight years of recruitment experience. He was worried that Lala would not be able to control this supervisor in the future. Liszt decided to remind Lala, and said tactfully: "The managers in our Beijing office have more personalities. Do you think Zhou Liang will have problems getting along with them in the future?" Lara said: "I asked him about his past experience in dealing with this kind of relationship. I think he is still sophisticated in dealing with the world. He has recently suffered a setback in his career development. He should be more cautious, so it's not a big problem."

Liszt estimated that even if this candidate was not ideal, it would not be wrong.After all, the recruited person will report to Lala in the future. As Lala is the direct supervisor, she thinks it is more important to be suitable.To take a step back, even if the recruiting is not ideal this time, it is only by letting Lala experience it in practice that she can progress faster. Liszt made up his mind and asked Lara, "How much do you want to give him?" Lala said: "He wants seven thousand, I want to give seven thousand and two, to enhance his satisfaction, so that he has a good feeling from the beginning, so he can work here with peace of mind."

Liszt said: "There shouldn't be any problem. You can communicate with Wang Hong. If he is OK, please issue an OFFER." DB quickly issued an offer to Zhou Liang, and Zhou Liang saw that the price he offered was slightly higher than what he asked for, so he was really happy.He immediately called Lala and said that he would report to DB as soon as possible.Lara thought he would thank him for the salary, but he didn't mention it. Lala's Shanghai office supervisor has also been recruiting for several months. She has been choosing among more than 200 resumes, and she is dazzled.

Liszt saw that she was also very tired from working, so he reminded her that a supervisor position should not be recruited for so long, and it should be terminated when it is terminated. Later, Liszt and Lala said that they found a candidate for her, which should be good, and suggested that she meet him. This is a twenty-seven-year-old girl from Shanghai. Her skin is so white and tender that it seems that the blood vessels and bones under the skin can be seen. She is tall and thin. Even if she is sitting there, she can be seen to be around 1.7 meters .Unlike ordinary Shanghai girls who are good at dressing, her dress is very complicated, one long and one short, covered with several layers. When she came to the interview, she wore double-toed leather shoes that had broken the skin. The heels are nothing like the ones that can be bought in the Shanghai market.She has a ponytail hastily tied, her hair is very long, it is estimated that it can reach her waist, but it is not well-raised, and the top of her head is a little hairy.A pair of eyes are as big as Zhao Wei's.When she saw Lala, she was not as polite and polite as ordinary applicants, but sat there coolly, waiting for Lala to greet her with a smile, and then she answered, without any smile on her face.

Lala immediately disliked her because she felt that she was not polite to her, and her dress also made Lala feel weird. Lala doesn't have a good impression of the other party. She is very polite on the surface during the interview, but the questions she asks are tricky and murderous. Lala first asked the girl the number and area of ​​the company's office, as well as the number of employees with their own independent office level, and then asked innocuous questions for ten minutes. After that, Lala suddenly changed the subject and attacked her: "What type of switch do you use?"

Usually, many people can name the brand, but they may not be able to answer the model number. Lala wants to use this to judge the other party's familiarity with the switch. The girl coolly replied: "NEC7400." Lala asked: "How many cabinets are there now? How many analog boards and digital boards?" The girl simply and clearly reported the numbers to her one by one. Lala calculated it in her mind, and it was consistent with the number of employees and the ratio of levels she said at the beginning. Lala intentionally placed the question of the number of people at the beginning of the interview as a general overview, trying not to alert the other party to the fact that all subsequent answers must match the number of people and the area.In this way, even if she has professional knowledge, if she is not currently managing it, or her mind is not so clear-headed, and she is not familiar enough with the work content, it is easy to make mistakes in her answer.But this girl is obviously knowledgable and quick to respond.

Lala asked her again: "What type of copiers do you use and how many copies do you have?" The girl had always spoken very briefly, and her lips were slightly raised when answering this question, giving the impression that she simply disdains to answer such a mentally retarded question. Lala pretended not to notice her expression, held back her breath and asked the next question: "Your department makes a budget every year, do you participate?" The girl said: "I have served in the current company for three years, and I was responsible for the departmental budget for two years." Since the applicant showed unprecedented confidence in this point, Lala had to praise her according to the usual interview skills and said: "It seems that your director trusts you very much, and you must have done a very good job." The girl said without a smile: "I can do a job that satisfies him, of course he trusts me." Lala thought, are you here for an interview? Such an attitude! She continued to smile and asked, "When you made a budget this year, how much did you prepare for the maintenance of copiers and consumables?" The girl revealed: "Actually, the last question and this question are asking the same question. How much will the consumables cost? In addition to knowing the approximate unit price of the consumables, it is also related to the number of people in the office; how many copiers are also related. It is related to the number of people in the office; the budget for maintenance costs is closely related to the current service life of the machine. Among my 6 Canon copiers, 2 have been used for 1 year, 2 for 2 years, and 2 for 3 years—— You haven't asked this question yet, and I think you will always ask it next." Then, she easily reported the number Lala asked for to Lala, and of course she answered clearly, leaving Lala speechless, and Bai was a little embarrassed when she exposed her. Lala stabilized her mind, and continued to ask a few big questions related to decoration. The girl not only gave a perfect answer, but also concluded: "I don't think I can be a professional in a big company if I haven't worked in the administration of a major decoration project." Administration, this is the first hard work of administration." Seeing that she spoke such expert words, Lala felt that it was unnecessary to retake the professional content of administration, so she changed the direction of the question and asked her to evaluate her interpersonal relationship. Lala believes in her heart that this person's interpersonal relationship will never be good, and she wants to see how the girl evaluates herself. The girl said calmly: "What is good interpersonal relationship has different interpretations in different company cultures. For example, in my current company, the culture is very strong and allows others to cooperate with you. Your interpersonal relationship score is High score. I introduced the decoration project I was in charge of earlier. Such a project requires the full cooperation of various departments and the administrative department——I have done a very good job on this project. It is because of this that I can answer the previous questions related to decoration. problem, and this project proved that I have very effective relationships in my current company.” Leaving aside whether it is fallacy or truth, Lala couldn't help admiring that she could have such a self-contained rhetoric at such a young age, at least her brain is easy to use.She asked: "Different companies do have different cultures. Your current company is a European company, while DB is a typical American company. How do you ensure that the effective interpersonal relationship under your current strong company culture will continue to the future of DB?" What about good relationships?" The girl corrected Lara's logic and said: "Then you are no longer asking about relationships, this is about 'adaptability', I can give you an example to prove my adaptability." As a result, after the one-hour interview, Lala could not pick out the poor answer. It should be said that this is the person who is most familiar with the professional content of this position among all the applicants for this position that Lala has met in the past few months. She made Lala unhappy, but the reason for her unhappiness could not be brought out to Liszt. Lala thought for a while, and arranged for her to take the mathematical logic test prescribed by the company, and she scored very high. Judging from the test results alone, she reacted much faster than Lala herself.Lala couldn't help feeling a little stressed. Lala went to find Liszt, but she didn't know what to say. She was embarrassed to say that she didn't like this person because she was afraid that she would not accept her in the future.In the end, she told Liszt tactfully that she had concerns about the girl's interpersonal relationship and worried that she would not get along well with various departments in the future. Lala said that she remembered that Li Wenhua once talked with her about the matching degree between applicants and direct managers. It said that newly promoted managers often attach great importance to whether they can control their subordinates, so they like to recruit honest and obedient people —— Lala couldn't help feeling a little guilty. When Lister asked her if she had observed instances of problematic relationships during the interview, Lara couldn't answer. Liszt persuaded: "This girl is very smart, she should have good potential, and her professional experience is also good, maybe there are some issues we are not sure about, but we have been recruiting for this position for several months, and we should make a decision .Anyway, there is still a three-month probationary period, and if she really can't do it, letting her go is a matter of minutes." After hearing the last sentence, Lala could only nod her head. The girl's name is Pamela. After Pamela took office as the administrative director of the Shanghai Office, she took care of her subordinate assistant Maggie and others.Maggie's nature is quite rebellious, and she rose up to resist. But Pamela has a lot of ways. She stipulates that Maggie writes the work report of the day and hands it to her every day when she goes to get off work. Before leaving work, she comes to her with the work plan of the day and reports the implementation of the day. Only then let him go. Three days before the May Day holiday, Pamela suddenly assigned Maggie the task of cleaning up the company's warehouse, asking her to work overtime on May Day.Maggie is ready to travel during the May Day holiday and refuses to work overtime. Pamela said leisurely: "That's no problem. If you can finish it before May 1st, you won't have to work overtime on May 1st. If you can't finish it, you will work overtime. You decide." Maggie was so angry that she was about to faint. The warehouse is not small, and it is shared by many departments. To clean it up, it is necessary to check the goods in the warehouse one by one with the assistants of each department, and also needs the assistance of the property management. It's simply impossible to make a living. Maggie and Pamela argued: "Even if I work overtime on May 1st, the assistants in other departments will not come to work overtime. If they don't work overtime, how can we move things in their departments? If there is less, it will be troublesome." Pamela said angrily: "You have three days before the festival to coordinate with the assistants of various departments to make an inventory. After the inventory, ask them to sign on the list. On May 1st, you can move and organize according to the counted numbers. .Why do you have to be present to organize the goods?" Maggie pressed the fire and said, "It's not that the goods have no place to put them. Is it so urgent to clean up the warehouse? Why do we have to finish it so quickly?" Pamela flicked her pen leisurely and said, "It's that urgent. I don't need to explain every decision I make to you." Maggie felt a tightness in her chest and suppressed it alive. Lala came to Shanghai at this time, and she asked Pamela to arrange some conference equipment, but Pamela replied that there was no such equipment. Lala asked her back: "How do you know?" Pamela said, "Maggie said it." Lala was very surprised, because these devices had just been counted in the past two months, and Maggie knew exactly where they were placed, so how could she easily say that they were not there? Lara said, "Ask her again." Pamela ran to ask, and came back and said, "No." Lala got angry and said, "Let's have a meeting and call Maggie." When everyone arrived, Lala immediately asked Maggie, "Don't you know what equipment we have?" Maggie said with a sad face, "I know." Lara asked sternly, "Then why did you tell your supervisor that you don't have these devices?" Maggie straightened her neck and said in a daze: "I have already arranged for a trip on May Day, but she didn't say hello in advance, and suddenly asked me to work overtime on May Day. If I don't want to, she insists on letting me go out on May Day." Just do all the work. So much work, I can’t do it even if I don’t sleep before May 1st. These jobs don’t have to be done before May 1st. She’s fixing me!” Lala asked in surprise, "What job?" Pamela looked embarrassed, and her white face was a little blue.Maggie poured the beans out of the bamboo tube and talked about cleaning the warehouse. Lala understood, and was very annoyed with Pamela.She suppressed her breath and said to Maggie: "If you have an opinion on this arrangement, you can raise it positively, and don't mess around with other things next time. Go out first." After Maggie went out, Lala said to Pamela, "Can you do all this work in three days?" Pamela shook her head awkwardly. Lala said sternly: "If you can't, then she can't either. Why do you deliberately arrange this? If the work really requires employees to work overtime during the May Day holiday, you should discuss it with her in advance. Besides, I don't see why it must be done." It must be completed during May Day.” Pamela argued: "Maggie's work attitude is very bad, and I am helping her to correct it." Lala said: "She has a bad attitude, you can coach her positively instead of fixing her." Pamela stood up. Lala was very short due to her height of 1.7 meters. She looked into Lala's eyes with a half-smile and said, "Lala, I need your support. You are my boss, don't you Support me, how am I going to work?" When Lala heard this, it was still labeled, and she couldn't help feeling angry from her heart, and she said nonchalantly: "Of course I will support your work, but you can't fix your subordinates. It’s not in line with our company’s culture, where we treat every employee fairly and with respect.” Pamela was upset, and so was Lara. Turning around, the two of them checked Pamela's homework, and found that she was busy repairing the Maggies, and inadvertently dropped a lot of her homework. Lala thought about firing someone, and immediately said to Pamela, "Well, you've been here for a month, and we'll sum up the first month together." Lala opened the laptop and found out the homework she had given Pamela when she first went to work.This document was sent to Pamela by Lara using the company's e-mail. She told one by one what Pamela hadn't done, and Pamela had nothing to say.Lala typed out a memo on the computer on the spot, based on the first email, sent the second email to Pamela, and copied it to her boss, Liszt. Pamela belongs to the group with the highest IQ in the world. When she saw that Lala had negotiated with her in written form and copied it to Liszt, she immediately understood that Lala was looking for an opportunity to kill herself during the probationary period. She stared at the computer screen with wide, innocent eyes, promising in a cooperative tone that she would improve drastically in the second month.