Nepotism Case Study
In order to avoid nepotism, there exist some preventive measures. These measures may collect under two headings: the study of Boadi that includes comprehensive measures and meritocracy versus nepotism.
6.1. The Study of Boadi
There are several precautions to be taken in order to prevent nepotism. However, the most general measures have been gathered in the study of Boadi. According to Boadi (2000), there have been five effective and required circumstances which are impartiality, enhancing of competition, openness, integrity and appeals, in order to able to avoid nepotism.
Impartiality. All job interview and recruitment process should occur under neutral circumstances. Public interest should be protected through ethical behaviors and fairness. …show more content…
The relevant advertisement for recruitment should include both the recruitments of the job and the possible field of applicants. Before filling the vacancies, the terms of references should be enough determined and the area of applicants should be maximized. All the circumstances for competition should be identified clearly and openly as well.
Openness. If the recruitment policies have been identified openly and conducted the related procedures transparently, the risk of involvement in corruption then will be diminished. Thus, the participants will be understood all of the given messages. Furthermore, being open should not mean the violation of institutional privacy. On the contrary, it means enough being transparent towards the participants.
Integrity. An administration, which tries to avoid any kinds of preferential treatments, has to indicate sanctions that are inconvenient in terms of institution policies. Besides, having independent peoples in the recruitment process enhances the integrity level of those organizations. Other committee members also should not know these independent people. Therefore, the organizations should definitely prefer the people from outside to utilize in the recruitment process. In the cases in which this is unlikely, this should be documented in writing. Finally, the whole process should be documented and the former-prepared documents should be examined seriously and the new-preparing documents have to put besides …show more content…
The term of meritocracy was first used in the book called “Rise of Meritocracy” written by British sociologist Michael Young. It consists of two words: merit, from Latin mereö [earn] and –cracy from Ancient Greek kratos [strength, power]. After combining the words, the following meaning appears: a system in which the meritorious people are assigned to relevant departments and positions. Thus, there would be intelligent, diligent and highly qualified employees in the upper echelons of organizations. Meritocracy has been carried out for the first time in Prussia in the 18th century. The Prussian King Frederick the Great had entailed learning law and succeeding in exams in order to be public
6.1. The Study of Boadi
There are several precautions to be taken in order to prevent nepotism. However, the most general measures have been gathered in the study of Boadi. According to Boadi (2000), there have been five effective and required circumstances which are impartiality, enhancing of competition, openness, integrity and appeals, in order to able to avoid nepotism.
Impartiality. All job interview and recruitment process should occur under neutral circumstances. Public interest should be protected through ethical behaviors and fairness. …show more content…
The relevant advertisement for recruitment should include both the recruitments of the job and the possible field of applicants. Before filling the vacancies, the terms of references should be enough determined and the area of applicants should be maximized. All the circumstances for competition should be identified clearly and openly as well.
Openness. If the recruitment policies have been identified openly and conducted the related procedures transparently, the risk of involvement in corruption then will be diminished. Thus, the participants will be understood all of the given messages. Furthermore, being open should not mean the violation of institutional privacy. On the contrary, it means enough being transparent towards the participants.
Integrity. An administration, which tries to avoid any kinds of preferential treatments, has to indicate sanctions that are inconvenient in terms of institution policies. Besides, having independent peoples in the recruitment process enhances the integrity level of those organizations. Other committee members also should not know these independent people. Therefore, the organizations should definitely prefer the people from outside to utilize in the recruitment process. In the cases in which this is unlikely, this should be documented in writing. Finally, the whole process should be documented and the former-prepared documents should be examined seriously and the new-preparing documents have to put besides …show more content…
The term of meritocracy was first used in the book called “Rise of Meritocracy” written by British sociologist Michael Young. It consists of two words: merit, from Latin mereö [earn] and –cracy from Ancient Greek kratos [strength, power]. After combining the words, the following meaning appears: a system in which the meritorious people are assigned to relevant departments and positions. Thus, there would be intelligent, diligent and highly qualified employees in the upper echelons of organizations. Meritocracy has been carried out for the first time in Prussia in the 18th century. The Prussian King Frederick the Great had entailed learning law and succeeding in exams in order to be public