"All orginaizations would benefit from hiring the smatest people"Do you agree with this statement?

Question

"All orginaizations would benefit from hiring the smatest people"Do you agree with this statement?support your answer.

Answer 1

If smart means intelligent and intelligence is
(1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : REASON; also : the skilled use of reason (2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests).
Because there are different types of intelligence and because there are many types of corporations with different needs, the answer is:
If a corporation were to hire the smartest people possessing the type of intelligence that that corporation needs and the cost of hiring those people is justified by the benefit of hiring them, then the answer is yes.
As we can see that is a lot of ifs.

Answer 2

No, I don't agree.

I think all organisations would benefit from hiring the "best" people for the particular job in question......but I don't think it automatically follows that the smartest people are the best people.

Being clever is useful sure, it perhaps means you'll have good ideas that will make the company money and hopefully you won't do anything stupid that will lose money.
But it doesn't guarantee it.......there are plenty of examples of top business people who have screwed up even to the point of breaking the law and ending up in gaol....and I think it's fair to assume they were considered smart when they got the job.

There are other human attributes that go into the mix and help define the "best" person for a job.....you want a hard worker who is honest and reliable amongst other things.
Maybe it even helps if they are personable and get along with others.
You might find the smartest applicant is none of these things.

Having a smart guy who is lazy and does no work is no use.
Having a smart guy who is dishonest and steals more than he makes for the company is no use.
Having a smart guy who is unreliable and hardly ever turns up is no use.
Having a smart guy who is unpleasant and pisses everyone around him off is no use.

Most jobs require a certain level of knowledge and all over the world those jobs are done adequately by ordinary people who carry out their duties sufficiently well to make money for the company that employs them.
They get on with their co-workers, they are honest and reliable....in short, they get the job done.

They may not be the smartest person who could be doing the job, but they are the best.

Answer 3

All organizations would benefit from hiring the smartest people - no, not necessarily.

There is book smart, and there is street smart - the former based on intelligence, the later based on experience. A combination of the two has a better general application.

There is intelligence, and there is personality - again, the combination of the two attributes has a broader application.

There is solitary intelligence, and there is group intelligence - the smartest person in the world, if incapable of working with others, may be more of a hindrance than an asset in a company.

It all depends on the circumstances; the key is to determine the best characteristic requirements for a particular position, then hire the best person, not necessarily the smartest, to fill that position.

Answer 4

I suppose it depends on what you are hiring the person to do. Do you want a PhD candidate to work as a janitor? No, he'll get bored and eventually leave. You want people who are skilled in their specific field and smart enough to be adaptable. You don't need the smartest people. In fact, it'd cost your company too much and you might suffer from "too many cooks" syndrome.

Answer 5

Smatest??

If the intended word was Smartest, then yes and no, I do not need my janitor to have a BA in Custodial Engineering, however, I would expect my VP, CFO, etc to have some higher educational background.
 

Answer 6

Maybe not just the smartest people, but the most qualified people. Knowledge, intelligence and skills ...Then we could get to a meritocracy, which, by the way, is not going to happen anytime in the near future...or in our current system.

Answer 7

Smatest people should not even be allowed to ask questions on Yahoo!
What organizations should do is hire the SMARTEST people. You know, The ones that use spell checker.

Answer 8

Depends on what positions you consider it takes a smart person or one who is not all that bright. To run a organization, it takes some one smart. To clean toilets, anyone can do that.

Answer 9

Smart people are not good leaders. Thus, organizations do not necessarily make profits but people with leadership abilities are the ones making waves in businesses because of people empowerment.

Answer 10

Actually they spend a lot of time, money and effort, trying to do just that.