Wednesday, July 26, 2006

JAL nepotism - the management nightmare

Click the title to see "The Southern's" story about John A Logan Junior College and their discussion about nepotism in hiring. I snorted corn flakes out my nose this morning when reading that there is concern that the applicant pool might not have high enough quality if a board member's family was excluded from being hired. I have a romantic vision that board members are there to help the institution and not to feather bed jobs for their families.

Back to the title - can you imagine having to manage the child or close relative of a JAL board member or anyone else who works there for that matter? Read my last post about the terrible manager at SIUC who has a spouse riding herd on anyone who might want to fix that screwed up situation as a case in point.

Southern Illinois if full (full!) of this kind of nepotism crap in our public institutions. If you are wondering why JAL is doing better than SIUC, maybe leadership that is will to publicly address these kinds of issue should be highlighted? Good for JAL for discussing this and shame on the board members who have gotten family members jobs in the past and future.

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