mishire

See also: mis-hire

English

Alternative forms

• mis-hire

Etymology

mis- +‎ hire

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈhaɪə(ɹ)/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪshaɪə(ɹ)/

Verb

mishire (third-person singular simple present mishires, present participle mishiring, simple past and past participle mishired)

1. To hire an unsuitable person for a job.
   • 1957, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings - Volume 3, page 4302:

     Whether it be a banker that mishires a teller that steals money, whether it be industry that mishires an accountant, regardless. of what it may be, the best they can do is remove him when they find him guilty of wrongdoing after he has come into the organization.

   • 1998, Don Blohowiak ·, Your People Are Your Product, page 58:

     Worse, many times they hire someone they thought was just like what they wanted, but – because of imprecision in the screening and interviewing process — the person wasn't even that! It's very easy to mishire people for jobs at which, realistically, their innate shortcomings will prevent them from ever performing beyond a mediocre level.

   • 2005, Business Law Today - Volume 15, page 14:

     Today's lawyers run the risk of feeding the "greedy, arrogant law firm" persona already well-established in the minds of most people when they mishire, mismanage, and improperly funnel resources.

Noun

mishire (plural mishires)

1. The act of mishiring.
   • 1995, John Wareham, The New Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter, page 85:

     Most mishires stem from the fact that some item of intelligence was not collected at the time of hiring.

   • 2001, Diane Downey, Assimilating New Leaders: The Key to Executive Retention, page 61:

     As if the barrage of negative feedback was not evidence enough of a mishire, within six months her entire team quit, including me.

   • 2007 ·, Ronald Joseph Baker, Mind Over Matter, page 233:

     Perhaps even more important, alumni are known quantities; the risk of a costly mishire is almost completely eliminated.

2. An unsuitable person who has been mishired.
   • 1996, Allan Krieff, Manager's Survival Guide, page 43:

     Merely by representing salary and/or job description in annual terms, you may be legally stuck with a mishire for that one-year period.

   • 2005, Andrew L. Ross, Gary L. Grenier, Frank J. Kros, Creating the Upside Down Organization, page 177:

     If they are basically in business for themselves to do what they want to do rather than what you need done you have a mishire who you need to get out of the organiztion quickly.

   • 2009, Chris Lauer, The Management Gurus:

     The other three-fourths (the B- and C-Players) become mishires and mispromotions.

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