Introduction
For the most part, considering the connections of a job applicant is a relatively good practice for a company looking for excellent employees. Primarily, this process increases the chance of choosing the “right” talent by saving time, energy, and other resources within the recruitment framework. In addition, employers will hire a person with whom they are familiar at least “in absentia” because they understand that people they need have sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform official obligations successfully. Based on this condition, one should remark that the presence of connections is a supposed guarantee of luck, success, and high achievements for both an applicant for a position and a manager. In its essence and nature, a person is a social being, which means that relations simultaneously provide security, support, happiness, well-being, and purposefulness.
Ethical Aspects in Targeting the Children
One should assume that the situation regarding targeting the children of well-connected political or business leaders is one of the most controversial and contradictory in the context of ethical norms and standards of behavior in society. On one side, everyone has equal opportunities to exercise their rights. Therefore, an employer is guided solely by a candidate’s business qualities before concluding an employment contract. However, separating a personal assessment from a professional one is not an easy and non-trivial task. Nonetheless, the scenario demonstrates the manifestation of nepotism (favoritism) as a destructive form of professional continuities. In general, in connection with preventing corruption offenses, the employment phenomenon of well-connected people still does not lose its relevance. There is a specific federal law in the USA, but it does not guarantee that an employer will not try to circumvent regulations. Based on the student’s opinions, targeting children of influential personalities contradicts professional ethics. This process may entail long-lasting consequences for an organization due to the deterioration of relations in a team, the loss of talented workers, and the country in terms of increasing economic inequality in society and poverty of the poor.
Tips and Solutions
Before giving good advice to a leadership team, it is necessary to weigh all the pros and cons and consider the arguments and considerations for and against some aspects. Firstly, it is required to trace a history of the “vital activity” of the program, evaluate the results, and try to predict outcomes. Secondly, one should familiarize oneself with legal information in more detail to be savvy in hiring workers based on their connections. At the moment, the “correct” solution is to move in a natural flow and continue working based on the existing local requirements for hiring employees.
Making a political decision requires balanced, reasonable decisions and a thorough analysis of a situation based on a company’s interests and ethical principles. On the one hand, a procedure for hiring an employee with connections can contribute to a company’s development, and work efficiency, and increase competitiveness in a market. On the other hand, by giving preference to favoritism, an organization threatens to face problems not only in the laws but also in the structure of a firm, starting with conflicts in the workplace and ending with a decrease in income and loss of customers and image. It should also be remembered about Philippians 4:8-9 and that this message helps to make decisions based on nobility in terms of the correctness of actions worthy of praise and admiration (King James Version Bible, 1988, Philippians 4:8-9).
Conclusion
Hence, according to the student, relying on moral and ethical aspects is still recommended to minimize unpleasant consequences for an enterprise, remembering the “boomerang rule” because everything good and evil done by a person can return.
References
King James Version Bible. (1988). B. B. Kirkbride Bible Company Inc.