Case study Hiring your supervisor s friend As a middle manager in charge of making a recommendation ...........

 Hiring your supervisor’s friend

As a middle manager in charge of making a recommendation for a job opening in your city organization, you form a search committee and

appoint a chair to con-duct the search. Shortly after the search gets underway, you receive a call from your supervisor, Surinder, informing you that a family friend is one of the candidates. Surinder assures you that the call is in no way an attempt to influence the search process. Nonetheless, she reiterates the closeness of her relationship with the candidate and comments about the person''s excellent qualifications for the position. The search committee recommends a rank order of three persons. As it turns out, Surinder''s friend is ranked number two in what is, by the chair''s own account, a close and

difficult ran king process.

Discussion questions

1. Should you recommend your supervisor''s friend for the job under these circumstances?

2. Would it be morally permissible to do so? Why or why not?

3. Suppose you are the supervisor, Surinder, in This case. Have you done anything wrong?

By: Mona Kaushal