Douglas G Garner Email & Phone Number

United States

Greenville, South Carolina Area, Serve Globally

We believe a person's potential success in performance and retention to a particular opportunity (job, industry, culture, hiring manager, curriculum, career) can be measured and therefore predicted.We help companies build high performing cultures by matching candidates to cultures, statistically, to increase performance and retention. The rest of the stuff takes care of itself.

HR Generalist for 550 employee carbon fiber manufacturing plant that went through 2 "downsizings" and was finally sold to a major customer (backward integration) after the BP buyout of Amoco. This is where I learned about employee "misfits" both exempt and non-exempt. Much of this could have been avoided had I known what I know now about employee selection. Predictively selecting self-directed employees in every function.

Responsible for Organizational Development consulting for "downstream" business units, ie. Chemicals and Plastics after Amoco's attempt to centralize "staff services" and decentralize strategic business operations. The acquisition by BP put an end to the "experiment" while I was serving as an HR Generalist at the Polymers Business Unit.This reenforced my understanding of the importance of employee selection and retention based on measurable employee culture fit.

Total quality management begins with the individual employee making the right decisions minute to minute. This assignment more than any of my career taught me the importance of employee selection. After hundreds of thousands of dollars training employees to become self-directing and to reduce management headcount, we still struggled with the competitive pressures of 'off shoring' textile jobs. Highly self- directed employees can be selected to inherently seek out what is necessary to be successful, not just follow instruction. Motivation comes from within the individual. You can't teach a dog to fly except to jump down from the furniture they should not have gotten on to begin.

Prior to the acquisition by Amoco Fabrics and Fibers, I was responsible for all quality management compliance and process re-engineering efforts for administration (Marketing, Sales, Finance) and Manufacturing at 3 polypropylene fiber manufacturing facilities. This was where I learned the application of Statistical Process Control. We used in safety management but did not think about how to apply it (SPC) to hiring or assigning personnel. "Big Data" was in its' infancy.

Ba, European History

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma Fraternity, 4 Year Varsity Cheerleader

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