HR Officer Question:

☛ Define professional behavior and/or conduct appropriate in the workplace.
☛ Why do you think a team of people – sports team, work team, may not work well together?
☛ Tell us about your management style – people, teamwork, direction?
☛ Describe an ideal supervisor.
☛ What is your own philosophy of management?
☛ How have you participated in planning processes?
☛ What was the most challenging personnel issue you’ve had to deal with and how did you handle it?
☛ Describe for me a time when you have come across questionable business practices; how did you handle the situation?
☛ A new policy is to be implemented organization-wide. You do not agree with this new policy. How do you discuss this policy with your staff?
☛ Describe for me a decision you made which would normally have been made by your supervisor? What was the outcome?
☛ Discuss and differentiate between remediation, corrective action, and discipline.
☛ Explain, step by step, how you have handled an employee who had performance problems.
☛ Why should employees seek to improve their knowledge and skill base? How would you motivate them to do so?
☛ What coaching or mentoring experience have you had? With groups or one-on-one? How did you determine the appropriate way to coach/mentor and what were the results?
☛ Management requires both good writing and verbal skills for good communication. When it comes to giving information to employees that can be done either way, do you prefer to write a memo OR talk to the employee?
☛ When making a decision to fire an employee, do you find it easy because of the company’s needs OR difficult because of the employee’s needs?
☛ Managing requires motivating employees as well as accomplishing tasks. Do you find it more natural to point out what’s wrong so employees can accomplish tasks competently OR to praise employees for their work and then point out what may need correcting?
☛ Managers need good information and managers need to make good decisions. Do you tend to gather information up to a deadline in order to make a better-informed decision OR gather just enough information to make a good decision quickly?
☛ What is the largest number of employees you have supervised and what were their job functions?
☛ Are you best at dealing with details and day-to-day operations OR with concepts, envisioning and future planning? Give me an example.
☛ Organization and time management are essential when supervising others. Give specific examples of large projects or assignments you have been given and then explain how you went about prioritizing and organizing the task completion through your staff.
☛ Suppose you are in a situation where deadlines and priorities change frequently and rapidly. How would you handle this?
☛ What methods do you use to make decisions? When do you find it most difficult to make a decision?
☛ A new policy is to be implemented organization-wide. You do not agree with this new policy. How do you discuss this policy with your staff?
☛ Overall, please tell us what you have found to be the most rewarding aspect of supervising others. What about the most challenging?