Advantages and disadvantages of having a no nepotism policy

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Brad was the office manger whose branch of a large architecturalfirm had 25 architects and 8 personal assistants. While Brad was incharge of the entire office, Laura was in charge of the assistants whowere not assigned to work for particular architects.

One day, Rachel had been brought to the office by her father, oneof the firm’s founders who worked at a different office. The fatherannounced that he had hired his daughter to work for Laura during thisand future summer vacations from university. Unfortunately, Rachel hadno skills whatsoever that related to the duties required. In addition,the office was fully staffed and did not need any additional help.

Laura was irate when she learned that she was supposed to findwork for Rachel and supervise her. She was particularly upset thatRachel had been hired without the firm following the standard selectionprocesses, and that Rachel had just been dumped on her doorstep. Shetold Brad, “Rachel has no knowledge of architecture whatsoever. I haveno work for her. I don’t want to have anything to do with her!”

On her first day of work, Rachel was shown to her desk but wasassigned no specific tasks. Within a few days, she had introducedherself to all of the architects and started spending more and more timein their offices. Wanting to make a favorable impression on Rachel’sfather, the architects willingly talked with her at length. One of theyoung architects was particularly taken by her, and vice verse. Shespent more time in his office than in any other. Meanwhile, the otherpersonal assistants were starting to complain about all of the attentionthat Rachel was receiving and about the fact that she wasn’t doing her”share” of the tasks. In addition, the architects were falling behind intheir work.

A vicious rumour wascirculating that Rachel had a brother, Ben, who might also be thrustupon the office. During all of this, Laura refused to have anything todo with Rachel and reminded Brad that she (Rachel) was HIS problem.

1.1. What are the major problems in this case?

1.2. If you were Brad, what steps would you take to solve the problems depicted in this case?

1.3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a ‘no nepotism’ policy?

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