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Reasons You Should Never Hire A Family Member by ogahlouiskid18(m): 1:23pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
1)Emotion is always involved You can’t get around this one despite how hard you try and how many heart-to-heart conversations you have. Emotion in personal relationships is just part of the deal and in the big scheme, is going to make for a messy working environment, more often than not. 2)Think about it: How is your cousin going to feel when you, as his or her boss, is amid having a serious talk about some failure or adjustment that needs to be made? They’re going to take it personally because you have a personal relationship, which is bad for business. 3)Expectations will vary It’s easy to assume that the given family member knows in advance that “they’re not going to get any handouts,” but the reality is that they’re always going to have different expectations and limits buried deep inside their brains than your other employees. Now, this doesn’t mean that you’re intentionally going to see them differently, but your family member knows, deep down inside, that they’re not your everyday employee — and this will affect how they work inside your company and handle disputes. 4)Your family members will be insiders So you’ve done it, you hired your cousin and they started a few months back. It’s Friday night and you’re headed for a family event for the weekend where said cousin will be in attendance, along with their parents — your aunt and uncle — and a slew of other family members. You arrive and within an hour you realise that the entire family knows more about the inside of your business than you could’ve imagined and it’s all the gossipy nonsense that you wish never made it outside your company headquarters. Do you know why this happened? Because your family is fascinated with what’s going on inside your company, which you rarely talk about other than from a 30,000-foot viewpoint, and now they have the access they’ve always wanted and are attaining heaps of info from your new employee. Not sure if that sounds fun to you — it sounds like an absolute nightmare to me. 5)There will be perceived nepotism You have brought on your cousin and everyone else at the company knows it. The difficulty comes when your cousin does well and starts getting some recognition for it. There will be people, without question, that believe the sole reason for your cousin’s success is that he or she is your family member — unfortunately, they’ll just never get past it. Of course, it would be ideal to build such an environment where the success of fellow employees is as transparent as possible, eliminating the possibility for nepotistic thoughts amongst others, but sometimes it’s just not that simple. www.entrepreneur.com |
Re: Reasons You Should Never Hire A Family Member by Mskrisx(f): 1:24pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
True |
Re: Reasons You Should Never Hire A Family Member by ogahlouiskid18(m): 1:29pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
and I love you |
Re: Reasons You Should Never Hire A Family Member by ArchEnemy(m): 1:35pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
True talk Don't ruin your business because of family ties Especially by giving positions to those who have not been tested and trusted. |
Re: Reasons You Should Never Hire A Family Member by RoyalRoy(m): 4:17pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
Very True.... Not only family members, including neighbours and very close friends who dont share the same ideology as you. Never also do business with people who you can't talk freely to on a good day. Someone much older than you and you have too much respect for is also bad for business. 2 Likes |
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