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Comment your experience , “should I hire a family member to work with my company”?

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Question added by Mohammed Ashraf , Director of International Business , Saqr Al-Khayala Group
Date Posted: 2016/02/22
Khalid Ghaffar
by Khalid Ghaffar , Consultant for Business Development , Waters Corporation USA

The answer depends on so many variables.

The simple thought is is he/she is qualified to do the job and please be sure that during selection process you take your self out and the rest of the team decide to hire or not.

Hiring a close relative in an organization can make and break the employee motivation easily so be out of the selection process and let the team decide. That's called leadership quality.

Katarzyna Sligowska
by Katarzyna Sligowska , Product Expert , Mango-Media

It depends on qualifications and your attitude. If you decide to hire family member then do not forget to treat him/her the same way like other employees, otherwise it may cause lot of misunderstandings. For some people it might be hard to distinguish family and work life, which you need to remember about also.

Nijabdeen Mohammed Naleem
by Nijabdeen Mohammed Naleem , Senior Sales Manager , Realtor Lanka Properties (Pvt) Ltd

If the person is capable to do the job and an  well mannered, I suggest you can hire.

Nancy Refai
by Nancy Refai , Health, safety and environmental management Trainer and consultant , Freelancer

If they have the knowledge, the experience and the right professional attitude to succeed the job and the position competition then why not?!

Rami Abbas
by Rami Abbas , Sales Manager , Al Houda Contracting and Real Estate Development

I worked in my family business for the past 8 years, it had its pros and cons. But mainly it was a very good 8 years with a lot of new things that I learned. So I guess it's a very good thing to habe a family member working in the company.

Mahmoud Zaher Tarakji
by Mahmoud Zaher Tarakji , مدير , أوال جاليري

...........yes...............

Maha Abdul-Halim PHR
by Maha Abdul-Halim PHR , HR Manager , Hassan's Optician Company

In My opinion yes you can ! you will assure their loyalty to the company as it will be their main source of income and they will do their best to stay together in one place .

Olayemi Adesola
by Olayemi Adesola , Sales/marketing Executive , Self Employed

Yes, you can hire a family member depending on perspective of the member of the family, interest, goals,virtues and what they can contribute to the family and also making them understand difference between family business and corporate business

samer maher
by samer maher , Senior Operations Manager , El Badry

Why not

But there are some conditions

1 experience

2. commitment

3. Honesty

Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani
by Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani , Snr. HR & Finance Officer , Sarri Zawetta Company

Thanks,

In my opinion , i do not prefer to hire persons from one family or relatives in same company .

Deleted user
by Deleted user

This is my perspective towards it.

It is a bad idea to to hire a family member to work with your own company. There are few pros and cons to it. He(family member) can prove himself to be the best member in the company or the worst. If he is able to prove himself or fulfill all your expectations then it would be one of your best decision so far but if he is not able to then you will be restricted at so many things because he being a family member you cannot yell at him, warn him or remove him from your company because this will only destroy the relation you share as a family all you can do in such situation is explain them things patiently or encourage them to do what you want. If he is in need of a job and you think he can be the key player or at least someone who won't take your advantage in a bad way and will fulfill your expectations then you can hire him and if you don't feel such then don't. Once you have taken a firm decision then you can perform 2 rakah of Istikhara and make dua. Istikhara means Seeking ALLAH'S counsel. Do you want to know how to pray Istikhara? Follow the link given below. 

https://islamqa.info/en/2217

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