Dear Practitioners of Holacracy,
how do you handle Firing with Holacracy? We are currently setting up a process on Hiring and Firing. The Hiring seems to be easy: if the responsible Roles agree and the budget is available go and hire the person. Easy.
Firing on the other hand seems a bit harder. We don't have any proper process in place and those processes which work in the old world seem a little off in a Holacratic organization. A traditional escalation process might look like this:
1st step: Verbally requesting certain outcomes (project results, behaviour changes, etc.)
2nd step: Verbal and written warning including ultimatum
3rd step: Evaluation of situation and termination of contract / dismissal
It's surely possible to implement such a process in Holacracy but to me it somehow feels wrong; this process doesn't seem very self-organized and it doesn't seem like the future of organizations.
My general idea is to have some sort of transparent process that can be triggered by any partner of the organization if certain criteria are met. I would like this process to redirect people into a future which could mean exiting the company or reallocating talents elsewhere in the organization. Have you figured out any exemplary processes yet?
