Nepotism at workplace

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Nepotism at workplace

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I will have a new boss soon who is a pinay. She has been working in the NGO (that i am currently working with) about 4 years now and lately she has been promoted as Country Director. She will not handle the works and the position of Country Director unitil March, meanwhile she has already brought another pinay to work into our NGO. i wondered why did she bother to bring someone all the way from The Philippine to work in Cambodia while there are so many potencial staffs in the NGO that should have been promoted for that position. However, my doubt sovled today. Actually she ( my future Country Director) know that person ( the new pinay staff). They know each other so well.
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Thats exactly what they did at the previous NGO I used to work for. They controlled all the big positions -- it was like walking to the back of the bank counter and scoop all the money you want at will. They speak funny English and can't speak the local language. They did very little good. Some of the big name NGOs are cocks. Period.
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I think it is really time for me to step out from this NGO. I have been working here for more than two years now. I have never enjoyed with the working environment, but the fact that my job can benefit to many poor Cambodians have kept me to work with it for this far.
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It can happen everywhere. It makes staff lose motivation to work and not respect the new one.
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Agree.
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LOL- i knew the chicken would come out of the tree on this.

bosses always bring a team to a new position.
sometimes the rank and file do not like them and make their lives difficult and their jobs untenable.

work to rule it is called by trade unionists.
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Yea still yet to subside. You know the story.
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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.
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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. :beer3:
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Re: Nepotism at workplace

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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?
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