Favoritism In The Workplace

Cashbuild hardware is located at Kwantu Shopping Central, McNab Drive Central, Alice, Eastern Cape. Cashbuild is the largest retailer of building materials and associated products, selling directly to cash paying customer. The hardware has been experiencing low level of performance among its employees for the past one year of its operation. After interviewing some of the employees that work there in different unit, I found out that most employees perceive favoritism by their management, bias when it comes to promotion, and they feel that their job are not secured. The perception of favoritism has now created the tension among employees working at Cashbuild and also imparted on their performance. According to Payne (2013) favoritism occurs when supervisor or managers base decisions regarding current or prospective employees on personal feelings and/or relationships and not on objective criteria, such as assessment ability, knowledge, and skills.
Favoritism is part of human nature. No two …show more content…
Financial rewards are often a key factor in influencing why individuals undertake a certain jobs. However, money is not everything. Employees need to enjoy their work, be challenged by it and achieve personal fulfillment.

Controlling favoritism at workplace
Controlling favoritism starts with recognition that favoritism exist within workplace. Many supervisory level staff favors one employee over another without even recognizing it (Cascarino, 2012). Controls that can help avoid favoritism include:
• Avoiding family relationships in the workplace where possible or, at minimum, ensuring no supervisor-subordinate relationship exists.
• Ensuring that all advancements, compensation, and rewards are based solely on performance using an objective and public methods for evaluating such performance.
• Being alert to office gossip, this may indicate the perception of favoritism. Misconceptions must be corrected as soon as