My thoughts about avoiding recruitment pitfalls.

What they teach and don't teach at IIM are the following. They tell "you need to create your own rules of thumb to live the life by" and their goal is to only expose you to the thinking you may want to have or to the lines of thinking that you may wish to pursue.

Now is there any possibility to prevent offices becoming resorts where people get paid for spending their time at the expense of people working hard to earn their daily bread?

Some thumb rules:

1. Test a person's integrity - if he/she fails this test don't hire.
2. Culturally people are very different. In every culture there are basic values. In India in modern time these are cheating, lying, and pursuit of money by any means. People who cheat and lie are strict no no. People who are ready to put in the work required to earn the money are the only part of the population that we can employ.
3. Never hire a person who has screwed up the his/her personal life.
4. Never hire a person who has not achieved a single significant thing in life till date.
5. Never hire a person who does not feel good about himself/herself or is at war with the external world.
6. If you have doubts during the probationary period just fire, because it will save lot of heart ache that the person and you are going to have in the days ahead.
7. Talk with references for each person you want to hire. More persons the better.
8. Don't hire if person is worried more about benefits even before taking up the job.
9. Don't tolerate any breach of rules. Warn sternly, give chance , indicate maximum chances available. If offence is repeated simply take the corrective and preventive action. Don't keep saying "I will shoot", "I will shoot" - just shoot. Sometimes fear is also a good motivator. For many of us in India who have become shameless, fear is also an effective motivator along with greed.
10. Never hire if person has entitlement mentality. Nothing is guaranteed in this life. We need to work hard to get these things. With entitlement mentality rewards come before the work. In nature it never happens so.

Alright I will keep writing more. I did not follow some of these thumb rules. So don't make the mistakes that I have made.