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Faisal Muhammad Al-Shamri

07 November 2020

Laws and institutional regulations stress the importance of preserving professional relationships away from any causes of conflict or conflict of interest, such as emotional relationships and marriage ties.

The high marital relationship requires separation between the home and the office, and professionally, this is difficult in light of the presence of the spouses together in one institution or one office, and the negative impact of this on working relationships with others.

Also, this type of family office presence negatively affects either other employees who may see this marital relationship as a reason for favoritism to the other party, or it may be a cause of negative discrimination to prevent this stereotype from forming, which is rarely the case.

The existence of regulatory laws that prohibit the survival of any party in the marital relationship in the institution or department itself, and legally obligate the declaration when applying for a job with any relationship with any employee or official, and are designed to reduce favoritism and favoritism, and many companies and institutions in countries that are more accepting of unframed relationships By marriage, the presence of loved ones and friends in the same organizational units is prohibited, with severe penalties amounting to dismissal, all with the aim of preventing the transfer of work disputes to the institution or disputes of the institution to the home.

No one wants to hear instructions that limit the powers of meeting with so-and-so, or similar instructions to Qaraqosh in bygone centuries, which, if not implemented, “will blacken his day and turn day into night and night by day”.

The laws and regulations governing the inadmissibility of relatives working with blood or lineage are set for a lofty goal that protects institutions and limits disputes and abuses that may sometimes amount to violating laws, regulations and favoritism with which laws are violated, which leads us to ask human resources managers:

When was the last session, seminar or lecture held on the rules of ethical conduct in the institution?

Have the foundations, rules, and consequences of violating the distinction of relatives by blood or by marriage been explained, and the consequences of having the spouses together in the same institution?

Are periodic reports prepared on this type of violation and its social effects on those concerned and on others, and its effects on work ethics, employee practices, satisfaction and granting them their rights and privileges without favoritism or so-and-so?

These simple rules of benign "social distancing" enhance the professionalism of work and make close family work in one institution a discarded matter and constitute a challenge and negatives that impede work and its development, and deprive others of their rights, and it is the simplest form of mediation that must be eliminated.

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- A non-resident internal administrative advisor at the Emirates Knowledge and Consulting Center at the Mohammed bin Rashid College of Governmental Administration