Nepotism in Organizations

Nepotism will be defined through the lens of human behaviours and psychological characteristics. Historical themes in human resource management and their relationship to family membership (broadly defined) in and around organizations will be the basis of this book. Other topics like legal issues, decision making and managerial roles in the family, career and job choices of family members, values and commitments of family vs. stakeholders, and conflict issues with family and other individuals will be covered.

There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the ‘rational’ approach advocated by many professionals. Textbooks on Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Economics, Public Administration, and a host of related areas seem to have entirely missed this important aspect of organizational decision making. This book seeks to change all of this. By clearly identifying and defining nepotism in organizations, this book pulls back the curtain on the primary basis for many of the important things that really happen in organizations, large and small. The authors skillfully weave examples of nepotism in real organizations with the usual scholarly textbook topics (hiring, leadership, employment law, career search, culture, etc.) in a way that defines an entire new field of quantitative organizational research. This new book in SIOP''s Organizational Frontiers series represents the first time IO psychologists have looked at the important subject of nepotism in organizations.

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