it is certainly beneficial to orgs like the mafia

MekongMouse wrote:

Cam Nivag wrote:Nepotism is hiring family members. Hiring people you know and trust might be considered "favoritism" or it might just be considered a good business practice.

I understand the correction in vocabulary, but why would it be considered good business practice? As OP stated, there are many qualified employees who could do the job just as well. His boss is familiar with those employees and those employees are familiar with the work. This woman flying in out of nowhere may be familiar with the boss, but is she familiar with the business?

It is not a business setting. i am working in a non-profit NGO.

Samouth wrote:

MekongMouse wrote:

Cam Nivag wrote:Nepotism is hiring family members. Hiring people you know and trust might be considered "favoritism" or it might just be considered a good business practice.

I understand the correction in vocabulary, but why would it be considered good business practice? As OP stated, there are many qualified employees who could do the job just as well. His boss is familiar with those employees and those employees are familiar with the work. This woman flying in out of nowhere may be familiar with the boss, but is she familiar with the business?

It is not a business setting. i am working in a non-profit NGO.

I may not be familiar enough with the NGO world to understand, but I don't really see how it makes a difference in my argument... and I was agreeing with you anyway.

Hiring your mates is cronyism.

StroppyChops wrote:Hiring your mates is cronyism.

Thanks SC for the term.

MekongMouse wrote:

Samouth wrote:

MekongMouse wrote:

Cam Nivag wrote:Nepotism is hiring family members. Hiring people you know and trust might be considered "favoritism" or it might just be considered a good business practice.

I understand the correction in vocabulary, but why would it be considered good business practice? As OP stated, there are many qualified employees who could do the job just as well. His boss is familiar with those employees and those employees are familiar with the work. This woman flying in out of nowhere may be familiar with the boss, but is she familiar with the business?

It is not a business setting. i am working in a non-profit NGO.

I may not be familiar enough with the NGO world to understand, but I don't really see how it makes a difference in my argument... and I was agreeing with you anyway.

Actually in our NGO, we have a really strict policy. You can't bring your friends or family members or relative to work in the organization no matter how powerful your position is. Moreover, if you are working now with us, you relatives or family member can't work with you. No matter how great the knowledge and experience that your relative or family member have. Their applications will be automatically disqualified. Therefor, at the moment she was not a Country Director,yet she violated the policy. This was not a good example.

I have no tendency against Filipino in general. However what my new country director did recently really pissed me off. She just fired my direct supervisor. To my knowledge as i really work closely with my direct supervisor, she has done nothing wrong. I really can't accept the reasons provided. My country director said that my supervisor couldn't handle the job (work performance). I wonder if my supervisor couldn't handle the job, why didn't my previous country director (American) fire her.

My supervisor told me that at one time the new country director called her to meet in her room then told her that she knew a Filipino who is really good in Admin. She urged my supervisor to work harder, if not she might consider to hire that Filipino. I am not sure if it is a verbal warning or a threat.

I just submitted my resignation letter as i really can't work in a place like this. Too much, favouritism and cronyism. I am not sure if my decision is right to leave the job, but i believe that if you are not happy with the job and people surrounding any more, there is no reason to stay.

Samouth, you need to report this to the Board of Directors

A chat with the Cambodia Daily might help, but it's doubtful

Samouth wrote:

Cam Nivag wrote:Nepotism is hiring family members. Hiring people you know and trust might be considered "favoritism" or it might just be considered a good business practice.

Thanks. i should have used the term Favoritism.

Unless your dealing with Khmer, then you can call it nepotism.
perhaps a new word should be invented in Cambodia's case. Nepatilisimo

Or standard business practice.