9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Bosses by Kohn Stephen E. & O'Connell Vincent

Author:Kohn, Stephen E. & O'Connell, Vincent [Kohn, Stephen E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Career Press
Published: 2013-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

Managing Familial Relatives or Significant Others

Is it ever a good idea to supervise a family member or significant other? In most cases, no—it is not. It is very difficult to maintain proper supervisory boundaries. Only in rare cases do such situations work. And these rare instances work only because both the supervisor and the family member–subordinate have a thorough understanding about the rules of behavior at work. They have the emotional intelligence to understand each other and to understand that work is a quite different environment than the one that exists for the two of them outside work, within their family lives. We have seen situations develop where organizational changes thrust a person into a supervisory relationship over a family member that is handled by moving forward with an understanding that alternative arrangements will need to be made eventually—in other words, it is not permanent. This sense of impermanency allows the supervisor/family member/direct report to better compartmentalize the temporary arrangement, with each party knowing that the two really need not make profound adjustments to their relationship because “this too shall pass.” A healthy discussion about boundary expectations and the impact of the arrangement on others within the work group is always advisable, in order to establish some “rules” and expectations for the time being.

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