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Favouritism is often mistaken as giving the right team member a task you know they can complete, not just because they dress well or are friends.
There are two kinds of favoritisms in working environment (whether we want to accept it or not):
a. Favoritism to someone's social behavior and appearance
b. Favoritism to somenone's professional abilities.
The first one, is totally unacceptable to me. It drives to discrimination, to wrong task-giving, to false results and in general in a non-professional behavior and manners.
The second one, is something that just happens during day-to-day cooperation and collaboration. If someone is more efficient, more accurate or/and more hands-on, then the favoritism to his/her professional abilities, is something that just comes up and there is nothing to blame.
But, showing off this favoritism may cause real trouble in team's orderly and smooth operations. Afther all, it's all about human's behaviors and reactions and we ought to be very careful.